Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster lives and works in France and produces work in a variety of media including film. Since the late 1980s she has created a series of narrative room installations that often recall the private spaces of her own apartments. These works invariably combine visual images, light, sound and furniture. Viewers are invited to experience a memory or a story of a person as if they are reading a book or watching a movie. As a result of this approach, many of the 'rooms' evoke a sense of cinematic space.
Petite is one of Gonzalez-Foerster's most arresting and seductive works, a typically atmospheric and theatrical installation environment that explores the private and the public worlds of childhood imagination. The sense of awe, anxiety and confusion of being a child in a grown up world is sharply and richly evoked and Gonzalez-Foerster's compelling command of visual narrative is clearly revealed.
Eddie Berg and Jo McGonigal
[LESS]Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster lives and works in France and produces work in a variety of media including film. Since the late 1980s she has created a series of narrative room installations that often recall the private spaces of her own apartments. These works invariably combine visual images, light, sound and furniture. Viewers are invited to experience a memory or a story of a person as if they are reading a book or watching a movie. As a result of this approach, many of the 'rooms' evoke a sense of cinematic space.
Petite is one of Gonzalez-Foerster's most arresting and seductive works, a typically atmospheric and theatrical installation environment that explores the private and the public worlds of childhood imagination. The sense of awe, anxiety and confusion of being a child in a grown up world is sharply and richly evoked and Gonzalez-Foerster's compelling command of visual narrative is clearly revealed.
Eddie Berg and Jo McGonigal
