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Lara Favaretto, Simple
Couples, 2009
Sculpture, iron slabs, iron frame, electrical box, car wash
brush, wires
© Sharjah Art Foundation; photo by Plamen Galabov
Installation view at Sharjah Arts Area, Bait Al Shamsi, Commissioned and produced by Sharjah Art Foundation |
Lara Favaretto: Just Knocked Out provides
the most complete overview of Lara Favaretto’s (b. 1973, Treviso, Italy) work
to date. Curated by Peter Eleey, Curator, MoMA PS1, and co-organised by MoMA
PS1 and Sharjah Art Foundation, this exhibition is not conceived as a
conventional survey. It was first presented at MoMA PS1 in New York, for which
the artist created one new piece, a site-specific installation that extended
through all of the galleries. The artist will also be creating an original work
for her Sharjah presentation, which can be seen in Bait Al Serkal, Arts Area
opening December 15.
Much of
Favaretto’s work alludes to the casualties of modern life, often referring to
the body and the natural environment through mechanical and industrial forms
that change and degrade. In both her installations and individual works, the
artist repeatedly reminds us of the choices we make, and of those that are made
for us. Balanced between aspiration and failure, she enacts a conflicted kind
of freedom, an illusion of autonomy and control where finally neither may
exist.
The
exhibition is supported in part by The Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum
of Modern Art and The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
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