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Istituto Svizzero inaugurates its Milan programme with The House of Dorothy, the first solo exhibition in Italy by artist Vincent Grange (1997, born in Geneva, lives and works in Geneva). Grange presents an architectural installation designed for the spaces of Istituto Svizzero.
The title of the project draws inspiration from the expression “friends of Dorothy,” a code used by the gay community—and later the LGBTQIA+ community—in the United States starting in the 1950s to identify one another and evade persecution for homosexuality. The term was so widespread that in the 1980s the Naval Investigative Service launched a lengthy but ultimately futile investigation to locate Dorothy, believing her to be a real person.
At the intersection of spatial design and queer history, The House of Dorothy reconstructs the home of this imagined figure, whose name was likely a tribute to the character played by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The various…
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Istituto Svizzero inaugurates its Milan programme with The House of Dorothy, the first solo exhibition in Italy by artist Vincent Grange (1997, born in Geneva, lives and works in Geneva). Grange presents an architectural installation designed for the spaces of Istituto Svizzero.
The title of the project draws inspiration from the expression “friends of Dorothy,” a code used by the gay community—and later the LGBTQIA+ community—in the United States starting in the 1950s to identify one another and evade persecution for homosexuality. The term was so widespread that in the 1980s the Naval Investigative Service launched a lengthy but ultimately futile investigation to locate Dorothy, believing her to be a real person.
At the intersection of spatial design and queer history, The House of Dorothy reconstructs the home of this imagined figure, whose name was likely a tribute to the character played by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The various…
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