SSNYC’s curatorial program is dedicated to promoting contemporary visual art focusing on the research and exploration of three dimensional work with an emphasis towards ceramics.
Sculpture Space NYC is pleased to present new work by France Goneau.
Opening Reception on Friday, November 1, from 6 to 9 p.m.
SCULPTURE SPACE NYC TO PRESENT France Goneau Solo Exhibition
Opening Reception Friday, November 1
from 6:00p.m to 9:00pm.
France Goneau’s artistic practice exploits ornamentation as an instrument of power and meaning. Illustrating her observations, interests or speculations, Goneau creates ceramic sculptures with indeterminate identity and function that take a close look at the concept of adornment. This fascination with ornamentation leads her to evaluate embellishments of all kinds, whereas the research encompasses multiple references in a relationship of sensory forces through narrative evocations reflecting a sense of presence between the immediacy of the experience and an uncertain memory.
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Artist in residence at the Quebec’s Studio in New York from January to June 2018, France Goneau initiated a research on beautification and body transformation while examining the artifices and their ramifications, positive and negative, that shape the feminine mystique and power. With body ornaments, the artist plays on the feminine identity as well as the constraints associated with it. Evoking as much the standards of feminine perfection and seduction, in both familiar and elusive territory, and fortuitous encounters brightening up her daily journey between Soho, where she resided, and Sculpture Space NYC studio in Queens, where she worked.
Suggesting an intimate ritual, these body ornaments highlight the ambiguity of their uses and their fragility while welcoming contemplative gazes to a personal and nuanced observation of feminine identity, the cultures, traditions and protocols that structure them, as well as the incapacity felt towards them. The ornamental instruments — protheses, postiches, carcanets and other accessories — made of porcelain, nichrome wire, platinum and 24-carat gold lusters invite to a proximity allowing appreciation of their smallness, their exigency, but also the temporality evoked by their whimsical appearance where past, present and future merge, and where their state of aging reveals the talismanic aspect of their relationship to the body. Feeding the attraction emanating from these seductive yet unclassifiable adornments, France Goneau declaims a serenade whispering its secrets on the unfathomable pinkness of femininity and provoke an intimate encounter where control, expression of identity and social conventions offer a glimpse of some enigmatic feminine empires, somewhere between dream, artifice and reality.
Bio: Graduate of UQAM School of Design and Bachelor of Visual Arts, France Goneau lives and works in Montreal. Her sculptures have been presented in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Miami, Milwaukee, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo and Paris.
SSNYC’s curatorial program is dedicated to promoting contemporary visual art focusing on the research and exploration of three dimensional work with an emphasis towards ceramics.
Image by Maxime Brouillet @maximebrouillet
France Goneau Solo Exhibition
November 1- December 7
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12pm-6pm & By Appointment.
SSNYC It is located at 47-21 35th Street, Long Island City NY 11101, near the 33rd Street/Rawson Street stop on the 7 train.
