Purple Magazine
— The 30YRS Issue #38 F/W 2022

dominique gonzalez-foerster (part 10)

dominique gonzalez-foerster

Purple emerged alongside a new generation of French artists, including Pierre Joseph, Philippe Parreno, Bernard Joisten, Pierre Huyghe, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, who often worked together on collaborative projects. Dominique played a key role in the beginning of Purple, helping us to conceive a magazine by, for, and about artists, and also curating shows.

In this interview, she talks about the origins of Purple and the shows we organized together, including “June” (1993), “Winter of Love” (1994), and “Elysian Fields” (2000), as well as the evolution of her prolific work, from installations to music, films, and performances.

 

DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER AND CAMILLE VIVIER, GORGONE I (APPARITION), 2021, HAIR, MAKE-UP, AND JEWELS BY MÉLANIE GERBEAUX, COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS AND SECESSION, VIENNA, COPYRIGHT ADAGP, PARIS, 2022
1993 purple prose #3 cover by dominique gonzalez-foerster featuring catherine bret-brownstone 1993 june exhibition curated by purple at galerie thaddaeus ropac photo by wolfgang tillmans

L’HIVER DE L’AMOUR,

1994 arc musée d’art moderne de la ville de paris

“The Winter of Love,” which we’re experiencing now, is not what we imagine. It’s about capturing, evoking, and showing who we are, the climate we’re in. It’s the crossing of a season and a moment in art that is also the art of the moment and all the hours that have transformed us. It’s a reason to exhibit, film, and re-experience them. A reason to make this magazine. The more we condemn the present, the more we must fall in love with it (Gombrowicz). If we talk of a climate and therefore of a perceivable sensibility, it is certain that our style must be conceived as something possible — what might happen next, something real outside the exhibition itself. And to leave it feeling transformed, as if to prolong the exhibition.

 

ELYSIAN FIELDS, 2000 centre georges pompidou

curated by purple institute, elein fleiss and olivier zahm
scenography by dike blair and dominique gonzalez-foerster,
soundtrack by bennett simpson

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