Untitled, 1987/2015 (foreground)
Tennis balls and glass fire protection
In a post-Duchampian act, this was less intended to elevate the everyday but rather to question the hierarchical distinction between high and low. The slightly curved transparent screen on which sides bright tennis balls are spread evoke the artist’s ongoing concern with sites of leisure and play.
Mouchoirs abstraits, 1986/2015 (background)
Fabric handkerchief
Characteristic of her continuous play with temporal displacements and the subjectivity of experience, the work conflates past and present. In 1986 Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster exhibited 12 mouchoirs abstraits at the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des beaux-arts in Grenoble.
Photo © Pat Kilgore