May 16 - August 29, 2021
Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds
Rue des Musées 33, 2300
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Parliament Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition Festins by Natacha Donzé at the Musée des Beaux-Arts la Chaux de Fonds, open from May 16 to August 29, 2021.
Natacha Donzé manipulates, associates, and reinvents all sorts of signs that con taminate each other to create a network of meaning that is never univocal. Her œuvre, however, is not scholarly: the artist feeds her imagination with science fiction films, video games and scientific imagery as well as art history. It thus allows a sharp deciphering of a work that deals with subjects as serious as the collapse or the tech nological crisis. Indeed, Donzé’s festins conceal a part of anxiety, they indicate at the same time an energetic abundance and the exploitation of all resources.
Backed by a post-apocalyptic imaginary - from which she protects us less than she aestheticizes it; The canopy or the grid, a hackneyed paradigm of modernity, en closes a space in which catastrophe has occurred, in the form of a feast. The feast completed, the disaster consumed like a turtle whose scales now decorate a box of expired anxiolytic tablets, it remains to change the point of view, the scale, to take the height. Redraw the map of a world where the human being is overwhelmed on all sides.
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Natacha Donzé was born in Boudevilliers in 1991. She lives and works in Lausanne. She is the winner of the Young Talent Prize of the 73rd Biennale.