Distant Lover 2009–2024
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf•Oct 11, 2024 — Jan 26, 2025
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Starting from the idea of the artist as lover, Monica Majoli’s exhibition Distant Lover 2009–2024 traces the artist’s long-term engagement with questions of the body, desire, and memory. Informed by experiences of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s and ’90s, Majoli explores intimacy and corporeality as proof of physical presence, and as a possibility for projection, encounter, and empathy. Her work consistently examines the body as a site that produces desire and pleasure but is also marked by fleetingness and transience, and in which both of these aspects are always inherently connected to each other.
In Distant Lover 2009–2024, body, document, and fictional image enter into close relation: while Majoli’s portraits are fictional, they are based on photographs of real people or real encounters from the past, giving them the character of a testimony, a document, a memento, or an obituary. While some of her portraits...More
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Distant Lover 2009–2024
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf•Oct 11, 2024 — Jan 26, 2025
Press Release
Starting from the idea of the artist as lover, Monica Majoli’s exhibition Distant Lover 2009–2024 traces the artist’s long-term engagement with questions of the body, desire, and memory. Informed by experiences of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s and ’90s, Majoli explores intimacy and corporeality as proof of physical presence, and as a possibility for projection, encounter, and empathy. Her work consistently examines the body as a site that produces desire and pleasure but is also marked by fleetingness and transience, and in which both of these aspects are always inherently connected to each other.
In Distant Lover 2009–2024, body, document, and fictional image enter into close relation: while Majoli’s portraits are fictional, they are based on photographs of real people or real encounters from the past, giving them the character of a testimony, a document, a memento, or an obituary. While some of her portraits...More
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