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"Loft" presented by Joanna Vasconcelos is part of the igneous themes it addresses several years ago: architecture, design, fashion ... always Topics discussed under the prism of critical feminism.
Made entirely open space, a loft e st, 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 living place, with connotations particular referring to the world of work and industrial production ...
With "Loft", Joana Vasconcelos transforms ga Lérie Nathalie Obadia in this particular space. 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 forms rhysomiq ues and sprawling. They come to take possession of space, invading the obstruct, thwart the course, ambulation parts coin. These forms are made of patchwork fabrics of different materials, lace, knitted ...
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Joanna Vasconcelos often supported and has often concern 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, 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 great escapes, claims against the closure, easements Daily in which women are still held in our Western society to speak only of her ...
In this loft, the artist causes a takeover of the space by the women: knitting, weaving, textile work are generally similar to the feminine 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 the place but also evacuate, drain, metaphor of feminine escapes and the role accorded ... They are no longer hidden in the baseboards or walls, but exposed to light, in joyful colors, all baroque exuberance.
Joanna Vasconcelos engages through its operative play between private and public, here comes the intimate space invading game also between detail and monumental pieces differentiated patchwork, embroidery detail and Expansion sculptures.
In "Loft," Joanna Vasconcelos invites us to reflect on the Status of Women in the workplace, on 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 -production textiles, for example, often assigned to women, employed as laborers, was virtually relocated - which recycles the past industrial revolution and revokes labor history of our "advanced" societies or in the dustbin of memory or look in ecomuseums .
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to these oversights, omissions to these "voluntary?" To these losses, Joanna Vasconcelos opposes a craftsmanship, which is reclaiming the space, a living know-how (here, here, Portuguese) against reifying a global, vendor consistency, without unnecessary pathos, sterilizing and above all without falling into the notion Burial Wealth ...
"Loft" Joanna Vasconcelos
until December 18
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
3 Cloitre Saint-Merri Street
75004 Paris
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