Gonzalez-Foerster
The work that wasn't there
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, born in 1965, shares her time between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Her main inspiration is the world of cinema. Since 1997, she has dedicated herself mainly to video, which she uses to develop new kinds of installation. Her work is inspired by films she has seen, or books she has read or the history of art in general. She often creates enormous installations composed of many elements, which she then takes apart and reassembles, in doing so, giving the work new meanings. The public is an important factor for the artist. Her major concern is to involve people in her art, ‘just as a writer drags people through the story in a book’. And this is why her works are created: to be touched, heard and experienced.
)
The work that wasn't there
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, born in 1965, shares her time between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Her main inspiration is the world of cinema. Since 1997, she has dedicated herself mainly to video, which she uses to develop new kinds of installation. Her work is inspired by films she has seen, or books she has read or the history of art in general. She often creates enormous installations composed of many elements, which she then takes apart and reassembles, in doing so, giving the work new meanings. The public is an important factor for the artist. Her major concern is to involve people in her art, ‘just as a writer drags people through the story in a book’. And this is why her works are created: to be touched, heard and experienced.
