@ Nathalie Obadia Gallery
by Valery Chicken
"Loft" presented by Joana Vasconcelos is in line with the themes it addresses several years ago Architecture, design, fashion ... always Topics discussed under the prism of critical feminism.
Made entirely open space, a loft is, by definition, made in a former workshop, warehouse or factory. It often keeps the footprint, the remnants of its past activities. The loft is a place of residence hijacked, a place of life, particular connotations that refer to the world of work and industrial production ...
With "Loft", Joana Vasconcelos transforms the gallery space Nathalie Obadia in particular. The gallery is divided by walls covered with different surfaces used for interior decoration (marble, wallpaper ...) These spaces are being created and assigned a specific function: living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom ... These living spaces are traversed by rhysomiques forms and sprawling. They come to take possession of space, invading the obstruct, thwart the course, the wandering from room to room. These forms are made of patchwork of different fabrics materials, lace, knitted ...
@ Nathalie Obadia Gallery
Joana Vasconcelos often assumed and was often concerned in her work on women's issues.
Here, the artist positions his work on the idea of home, domesticity, often reserved place in our society, to women, regarded as the hostess, keeper of domesticity ... The image of Penelope, the faithful wife and passive, weaving awaiting Ulysses comes to mind. But here, surprise, Penelope overflowed, flooding, lots of walls. These forms are sprawling like so many near misses, claims against the closure, the daily in which easements are still required for women in western society to speak only of her ...
@ Nathalie Obadia Gallery
In this loft, the artist causes a takeover of the space by the women: knitting, weaving, work Textiles are generally similar to the female universe.
Vasconcelos plays the metaphor by making visible the hidden parts of a house: plumbing, electrical son, who transmit, circulate the energy necessary for the viability of place but also evacuate, bailed, escaping metaphor of the feminine and the role accorded ... They are no longer hidden in the baseboards or walls, but exposed to light, in joyful colors, all baroque exuberance.
Joana Vasconcelos engages through its operative play between private and public, here comes the intimate space invading game also between detail and monumental pieces differentiated patchworks , expansion of the embroideries and meticulous carvings.
@ Joana Vasconcelos
Vasconcelos his work often engages in a practice of diversion, such diversions are often playful, taking matters generally everyday objects and, thereby, engage the debate on our dispositions.
In "Loft", Joana Vasconcelos invites us to reflect on the Status of Women in the workplace, this double penalty for women to combine work and household activity. But thinking beyond the scope of the Women and expands on the future of our post-industrial society, textile production, for example, often assigned to women, employed as laborers, was virtually relocated - which recycles this industrial past over and revokes labor history of our "advanced" societies or in the dustbin of memory or look in the open-air museums.
@ Joana Vasconcelos
to these oversights, omissions to these "voluntary?" To these losses, Joanna Vasconcelos between craftsmanship, which reclaims the space, supports expertise (here, here, Portuguese) against reifying a global, vendor consistency, without unnecessary pathos, sterilizing and above all without falling into the concept of heritage burial .. ".
"Loft" Joana Vasconcelos
until December 18
3 rue Cloitre Saint-Merri
75004 Paris
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