Kunsthalle Zurich presents two immersive installations by London-based artist Marianna Simnett
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Monday, October 14, 2024


Kunsthalle Zurich presents two immersive installations by London-based artist Marianna Simnett
Marianna Simnett, Faint with Light, 2016, SEIZURE installation view at Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, 2019. Courtesy: the artist. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.



ZURICH.- Kunsthalle Zurich presents two immersive installations by London-based artist Marianna Simnett (b. 1986). Blood In My Milk, 2018, and Faint with Light, 2016 are Simnett’s most important achievements in her still young career. Simnett’s work is raw and overwhelming. Viewers have been known to faint when visiting her shows.

Blood In My Milk is a five-channel, 73-minute film installation bringing together a body of work made between 2014 and 2017. Characters ranging from surgeons, scientists, children and insects tell grisly stories about sickness and medical intervention. Blood In My Milk is a fairy tale, musical, documentary and nightmare in one. It puts you under a hypnotic spell, yet keeps you at a wicked distance.

Faint with Light is an audio and light installation which records the artist deliberately inducing her own unconsciousness through hyperventilation. Simnett’s breath is visualised by a monumental 12 metre wall of blinding LED lights which rise and fall in tandem with the sound of her collapse and revival. The work was inspired by her late Jewish-Croatian grandfather, who survived a mass execution during the Holocaust when he fainted in a firing line.

In her films, installations, drawings and sculptures, Marianna Simnett challenges how the body is perceived and imagined in order to break normative patterns of behaviour.

Marianna Simnett completed her MA at the Slade School of Art in 2013. She won the Jerwood / FVU Award in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Jarman Award in 2017. Her work has shown in many museums internationally, including Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019, FACT Liverpool, 2019, the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2019, the New Museum, New York, 2018 and MMK, Frankfurt am Main, 2018.

In addition to Blood In My Milk and Faint with Light, Simnett’s latest film The Bird Game, 2019, will be screened on 23rd January 2020 at 6.30pm. The Bird Game is a wicked fairy tale in which a loquacious and bloodthirsty crow lures six children to a secluded mansion. Followed by a conversation with the artist.










Today's News

December 16, 2019

The Frick exhibits paintings by Manet from the collection of the Norton Simon Museum

The marvelous Mr. Drysdale, and his 3D time machines

Contemporary Trompe l'Oeil master, Anthony Mastromatteo, on view at Rehs Contemporary NY

An extraordinary pair of Delftware flower vases sold at Sotheby's Paris

James Casebere presents a new series of works at Sean Kelly

Tate Liverpool opens the first UK solo display of Swiss-Argentine artist Vivian Suter

Bruce Silverstein now representing The Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust

LewAllen Galleries announced the passing of lyrical abstractionist Emily Mason

Christie's December Watches sales total $7.7 million, American Icons 100% sold

"Collecting Reimagined: A 2D Curiosity Cabinet" opens at the Bruce Museum

How a band of seasoned cinephiles plans to save the movie house

French New Wave icon Anna Karina dies at 79

A woman, a banana and a $120,000 question about what a life is worth

On the frontier, the Lubumbashi Biennial makes art from obstacles

Indonesian martial art pencak silat gets UNESCO heritage status

Don McDonagh, dance critic and author, dies at 87

Hang-Up Gallery opens new 2000 sq ft London space

Kunsthalle Zurich presents two immersive installations by London-based artist Marianna Simnett

The Ravestijn Gallery presents the world premiere of Anja Niemi's all new series The Blow

Caroline Lucas MP curates her first art exhibition from works in major UK art collection

Christmas pyramid lights up Alabama city

State of Extremes now open at Design Museum Holon

Ambitious project 'Lights Up London' this festive season

Lee Cott's photographs of the Seattle Gas Works on view at The Griffin Museum of Photography

Top 10 New Year's Slots

Why Unique Business Cards Are Important For Your Business?




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful