CHAMBRES
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has worked on a series of Chambres or Rooms installations starting from 1988. Alongside films, the rooms are one of the key work series developed by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Consisting of coloured walls, interior elements and furniture, the rooms attempt to capture an atmosphere of a lived interior and to reconstruct a moment of a past experience. They also function as immersive environments that open up a space for imagination: visitors of a room can develop their own associations and imagine fictional narratives taking place in the settings created by the artist.
“ Domestic interiors, rooms, houses, seem to be like spaces in-between, some kind of interfaces, transitional spaces between our inner‘ mental’ space- what we feel as our self- and the outside-out-side, out of the body and out of the house. That’ s why the relation to art seems so important in domestic places, the way rooms reflect peoples’ stories, obsessions, desires, their relation to objects, pictures, daily life. Rooms seem to contain some half‘ unconscious’ exhibitions of the self.” – Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
“ For me, the room is a natural dimension of art- the first place when you pin up personal or collective things; a mental space where you create an ambiance.(...) My rooms are like images that you can enter.”
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