Just think pink, and you’ll be fine.
In a new installation that brings together copper and textiles elements, a cardboard model and written words, Dominique Hurth investigates the original purpose of Joy Forum’s architecture and offers her own cultural history of the scale model. Per se feminist and polyphonic, she offers three movements within, about and through architecture, where the scale model overlays and merges with the voices and the inventions of Josephine Cochrane, Frances Gabe, Margarete Schütte-Lihotsky and the Barbie doll. The architecture encounters the dollhouse, the dreamhouse, the fully equipped kitchen, the dishwasher and the self-cleaning house and looks back at the tension between the model and the role model and the emancipatory potential that architecture contains.
OPENING NIGHT: Thursday, Oct 18, 18:00-20:00
Exhibition opening hours: Oct 19-26, Monday-Friday 10-15 + oct 29, 10-12.
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In the formats of exhibitions, installations and words, Dominique Hurth is interested in the framing and reading of objects and events. Recipient of several prizes and awards such as the Prize of the Berliner Senate at ISCP New York, the FNAGP, or the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, she exhibited a.o. at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Fundacio Tapies (Barcelona), Tiroler Kunstpavillon (Innsbruck), MAMO – Cité Radieuse (Marseille), Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst (Bremen), FRAC Bretagne, Wildt’sche Haus (Basel), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Hordaland Art Centre (Bergen), Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona), MABA (Nogent-sur-Marne), Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), Die Raum (Berlin). Her first book «language in the darkness of the world through inverse images» was published in 2012, followed by «séance de lecture» in 2016.