Audemars Piguet Contemporary debuts new artwork by Aleksandra Domanović
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Monday, October 7, 2024


Audemars Piguet Contemporary debuts new artwork by Aleksandra Domanović
Installation view from 'Becoming Another' (2021). Courtesy of the artist and Audemars Piguet.



BERLIN.- Audemars Piguet Contemporary unveiled its latest commissioned artwork Becoming Another (2021) by Aleksandra Domanović, on view in Berlin from 16 September to 10 October 2021 at the former Der Tagesspiegel print house on Potsdamer Straße. Premiering timed to Gallery Weekend *Discoveries, the exhibition is the first that Audemars Piguet Contemporary presents in Berlin, a city that the artist has called home for over a decade.

Throughout her career, Domanović has been exploring the interrelation of technology, history and identity in sculptures, videos and digital artworks. Becoming Another employs the artist’s in-depth research practice and asks: what does technology enable us to visualise? The multi-layered exhibition begins with the history of medical imaging—in particular obstetric ultrasound images— and offers an opportunity to rethink the relationship between seeing and perceiving.

Installed on either side of the video sculptures are two large-scale prints—one based on a computer simulation of an ultrasound beam; the other an image of the artist’s mother performing an ultrasound on herself. The prints employ the Bezold effect, an optical illusion that makes small areas of interspersed colour appear to change depending on adjacent colours. These prints—the largest realised by the artist to date—represent the fraught distinction between what one sees and what one perceives.




Ultrasound is at once technical and personal for the artist. Her mother was a radiologist who specialised in ultrasound and the artist grew up living with the machinery. Starting with the obstetric ultrasound, Becoming Another develops what the artist calls a “language of assimilation.” Domanović reminds visitors of the link between this technology and foetal gender identification. She then points to the danger potentially posed by pyrotechnic devices sometimes used at gender reveal parties, which can and have instigated wildfires including the El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino, California, in September 2020—one of the region’s largest to date. As Carson Chan, Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, explains in his essay on Becoming Another: “Domanović’s monumental exhibition grapples with the images produced by and in our bodies, and the surprisin—often cataclysmic—effects brought on by their manifestation.”

By linking ultrasound technology to the gendering of an unborn foetus and to the contemporary phenomenon of the gender reveal party—which can and has resulted in serious environmental disasters—Domanović expands on her research into seeing and perceiving, showing how contemporary technology and culture are inextricably linked; how human perceptions evolve; and how easily one thing can become another.

“At its core, this project is about things becoming something else. Through the example of obstetric ultrasound images, we realise that perception is a political field. Looking at art changes you or makes you part of art. Similarly, through perception, a foetus becomes the ultrasound, a gender reveal becomes environmental catastrophe and an image becomes an object.” ---Aleksandra Domanović

“It’s an honour to be working with Aleksandra in Berlin on her first large-scale exhibition in the city. Certainly we can all learn from the questions she poses in Becoming Another, which not only reflect contemporary art, but also contemporary life today.” ---Denis Pernet Art Curator, Audemars Piguet Contemporary










Today's News

September 16, 2021

Monumental Rocket Sculpture by Hubert Phipps Selected for Art in Public Places Program in South Florida

Snite Museum of Art acquires Yinka Shonibare's Earth Kid, 2020

Christie's announces highlights included in the Post-War to Present auction

Hindman Auctions to present three days of Asian art sales

Nigeria eyes July 2022 for German return of looted bronzes

Unknown Lennon recording to be auctioned in Denmark

'They had nothing': Polish museum honours Siberian deportees

A harmonic convergence of signature art surveys

Burton is designated to lead Los Angeles museum

Seeking historical exhibits that speak to the here and now

In Turkey, a watery grave becomes a park

The Met appoints Neil Cox as Head of The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

Ajlan Gharem announced as winner of Jameel Prize

Sylvester Stallone's personal collection of Rocky, Rambo, The Expendables & more items head to Julien's Auctions

Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo exhibits an unseen collection of photographs by Luigi Ghirri

Hamiltons Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Daido Moriyama

Audemars Piguet Contemporary debuts new artwork by Aleksandra Domanović

Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens a new solo exhibition by Paul Wallach

Counting new art blessings amid the uncertainty

'Stick it to the man' and other lessons from the Met Gala cocktails

British artist Gavin Turk sells cans of his own urine

'Release. Joy. Love.' A dance festival at Little Island.

'Great Circle,' 'Bewilderment' among Booker Prize finalists

Jaap van Zweden to step down as New York Philharmonic's maestro

Popular Online Slots based on Disney Cartoons in Australia

Modern Living Room Furniture Ideas With Design That Matches Your Style

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Photographer?

How to Blur photo background

How to Plan a Wedding When Working Full Time




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