Nadège Grebmeier Forget
Artwork sold in pair
Screen surfaces and the framing possibilities they afford play a predominant role in Nadège Grebmeier Forget’s practice. For À l’affiche, the artist wanted to explore their transposition into two-dimensional images that would also hold the poetic trace of her individual experimentations. The resulting diptych retains the process, gesture and dynamic character of her work’s trademark performative presence, while proposing a visual dialogue between form, colour, pattern, image and frame to evoke movement, and create a living viewing space.
Artwork on the left : Edition of 30 copies, 76 x 56 cm. Silkscreen (two passages - gradients) on Arnhem 245 gr paper. + chine-collé of a monotype made by the artist (different on each copy) and a digital print on BFK Rives white paper 115 gr.
Artwork on the right : Edition of 30 copies, 38 x 28 cm. Silkscreen (four-color + one color with transparency + one varnish) on Arnhem 245 gr paper
The works highlight items from the artist’s personal archive: costumes and materials from previous performances, an image of Marilyn Monroe found in an old book, a picture from her Photo Booth collection, and the reproduction of a gesture etched in makeup (usually applied ephemerally on glass surfaces): a monotype, hand-painted in lipstick, making each print different from the next.
Edition of 30 copies, 76 x 56 cm. Silkscreen (two passages - gradients) on Arnhem 245 gr paper. + chine-collé of a monotype made by the artist (different on each copy) and a digital print on BFK Rives white paper 115 gr.
Resonating with the multidisciplinary and excessive nature of her approach, she uses various similarly sensual printing techniques (either in their process, implementation steps or finishes) used to recall the body invested–in both time and action–with the material at work.
Edition of 30 copies, 38 x 28 cm. Silkscreen (four-color + one color with transparency + one varnish) on Arnhem 245 gr paper.
BIOGRAPHY
Circulating within Montreal’s visual and performing arts communities as an interdisciplinary artist, project coordinator, creative consultant and artistic director, Nadège Grebmeier Forget has distinguished herself through the empowered and performative manipulation of her image. Her work has been seen at multiple festivals, exhibitions, residencies, and conferences across Canada, the US, and Europe. Grebmeier Forget is known for her durational, live, streamed, and private performances that question the labour of making and becoming. Writings about her art practice have been published in the conference proceedings Performance: a place of visibility for female artists? by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions (Paris), in the scientific journal Recherches féministes, the online publication Momus, and in the magazines Vie des Arts, Spirale and esse arts + opinion, among others. She is the first performance artist to receive the City of Montreal’s Prix Pierre-Ayot (2019), awarded in partnership with the Contemporary Art Galleries Association (AGAC).