Let Me Be Indifferent to Loss And Gain
© HEAD – Genève, Emily Bonnet
Oil on canvas, inflatable dunnage bags, print on vinyl, window tinted filter, variable size2019
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MFA Diploma Jury
HEAD — Genève
Geneva, CH
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MFA Diploma Jury
HEAD — Genève
Geneva, CH
Let Me Be Indifferent to Loss And Gain
Let Me Be... is a work that brings together two distinct series of objects in a third part that brings them together in an installation. The proposition revolves around my reinterpretation of the infamous painting+seat duo. With a color filter installed on the windows, the exhibition space, which is bathed in warm, thick natural light, immerses the visitor in the theatricality of their own encounter with the elements of the installation and their functionality. The image of pipes is a recurring decorative element in the paintings and on the surface of the inflatable seats. By combining heterogeneous aesthetics in the genre of pastiche, I am interested in blurring the notions of authoriality and authority for the benefit of generating a “pipe-like” movement of thought or the speculation of a “hose-like” consciousness. « You rest and ease the reins over your thoughts. It comes to your attention that you're carrying conflicting definitions for what "lucidity" means. » Using the five visible sides of the inflatable geometrical shape as perceivable surface for thoughts, I am interested in staging a paranoid state of shallow consciousness which echoes the contemporary ethos of the bourgeois subject.