Glasgow International

Festival 2016

COSIMA VON BONIN

WHO'S EXPLOITING WHO IN THE DEEP SEA?

Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
Royal Exchange Square
Glasgow
G1 3AH

Royal Exchange Square

Exhibition

Von Bonin’s exhibition Who’s Exploiting Who In The Deep Sea?* brings together a series of works from 2006 onwards exploring the artist’s affection for the creatures of the sea. Working with textiles, music, sculpture, performance, video and painting, her practice is varied and often collaborative in nature.

The artist’s cast of characters are a host of contradictions – approachable creatures who are reminiscent of childhood companions are not what they seem. Weaving together humour with melancholy, these sculptures have ambiguous roles and feelings. Von Bonin is able to use these creatures as agents to explore art history, popular culture and craft, to destabilise perceived constructions of feminism. She has created her own crew to explore the deep sea, where, as an analogy of the human condition it is a true place of the unknown.

The exhibition is co-curated by Director Sarah McCrory and SculptureCenter Curator Ruba Katrib. The exhibition will open in September at SculptureCenter.

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*Róisín Murphy – Exploitation: www.vimeo.com/124937307

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