Pauline Curnier Jardin, Feel Good Cooperative
Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative. Triviale
Place: MACRO - Museo di Arte Contemporanea
Responsibles: Luca Lo Pinto con Chiara Siravo
Organizers:
- Assessorato alla Cultura di Roma Capitale
- Azienda Speciale Palaexpo
City: Rome
Province: Rome
Start date: 09 Febbraio 2024
End date: 12 Maggio 2024
Ticket price: free entrance
Telefono per informazioni: +39 06 696271
E-Mail info: info@museomacro.it
Official site: http://www.museomacro.it
The exhibition will consist of a theatrical set in which the public and the domestic nature of sex work are enacted and humorously elaborates on themes of gender identity, migration and the legacy of colonialism.
In addition to three filmic installations realized by Feel Good Cooperative Fireflies/Lucciole (2021), The Death of the Pope(2023), Le Colonne della Colombo (2023) that divide the exhibition into chapters and the space into islands, the exhibition space is scattered with sculptural elements conceived by individual members of the Cooperative. Altogether, the works in the exhibition present the layered experience of the Cooperative with unashamed playfulness. They explore the art of joy and of feeling good through performance, role play, entertainment and beauty, revealing the fundamental presence of these elements in both sex and artistic practice.
The exhibition has been conceived within the backdrop of an ongoing workshop, dubbed the Feel Good Accademia di Belle Arti, which began at the start of 2023. It has consisted of a series of meetings, film screenings, lectures and practical sessions with artisans, as well as conversations around the meanings behind making art work. Self-representation and self-determination, but also the seldom discussed theme of economic renumeration. Triviale as a result seeks not only to expand the languages of art and authorship, but also to reveal voices and visions narrating the city of Rome with and from its margins. Concealed by the overt power of the monuments they attempt to deconstruct, the members of the Cooperative present their own liminal history of Rome.
PAULINE CURNIER JARDIN (b. 1980, Marseille, France) is a Berlin-Rome based artist working across installation, performance, film, and drawing. Her cinematic installations create unorthodox universes and tell stories which propose alternative narratives. She is the winner of the 2019 German Preis der Nationalgalerie, the 2021 Villa Romana Prize in Firenze, and recipient of the 2019-2020 Villa Medici fellowship in Rome. In recent years, her work has been exhibited in or commissioned by: Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2023), Kunsthaus Pasquart, Bienne (2023), CRAC Occitanie, Sète (2022); FRAC Corsica (2022); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2022); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (2022); LIAF, Venice and Kabelvåg (2022); Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2021); INDEX – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2021); Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz (2020); Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020 and 2013); the Bergen Assembly, Bergen Biennial (2019); International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2018); the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Tate Modern, London (2017); Performa 15, New York (2015).
THE FEEL GOOD COOPERATIVE is an art collective of Colombian transgender sex workers and their allies, born in Rome during the lockdown of Spring 2020. The Cooperative was born thanks to the initiative of artist Pauline Curnier Jardin, photographer and sex worker Alexandra Lopez and architect and researcher Serena Olcuire. The collective understands art as a space of expression and economic compensation for subjectivities that are traditionally marginalised, stigmatised and excluded from the possibility of self-representation. The works of the Feel Good Cooperative have been exhibited in several cities, including Rome, Berlin, Genoa, Bonn and Cologne.
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