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Jonas St. Michael, "La Facciata" (Film still), 2016
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LA FACCIATA
JONAS ST. MICHAEL 09.6 - 11.9 / Opening on September 6, 5pm Jonas St. Michael’s art practice draws from the interactions that exist between an image and different settings that transcend humans on an individual level. These socio-political or institutional contexts are re-examined by the Montreal-based artist through photography. At Diagonale, his exhibition titled La Facciata takes us through the heart of the Villa Necchi Campiglio, in Milan. Built in the 1930s for the Necchi sisters—wealthy heirs of the Necchi sewing machine factories—this luxurious, modernist mansion has since been transformed into a “museum-house.” Through a range of mediums, Jonas St. Michael crystalizes its domestic interiors into a porous encounter between personal narrative—embodied by the former residents’ artefacts such as velour-covered sofas, ornamental tapestries, heavy draperies, and art objects—and the building’s reclassification as a heritage site. By highlighting the passage from intimate dwelling to public space and the subsequent shift toward a fictionalized reality, St. Michael underlines issues of hierarchy and power within this architectural space, now open to our collective interpretation. Translate by Jo-Anne Balcaen |
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