Shannon Bool - Inverted Harem

Everyday life, literature, psychology and art history are important sources of inspiration for the artistic work of Canadian artist Shannon Bool (born in 1972, lives in Berlin).

Her paintings, photograms, collages, tapestries, murals and objects revolve around shifts in context, transfers of meaning and the question of how ideas about one and the same thing are expressed in different cultures and times. Brancusi may encounter medieval ornamentation, French films of the 1960s may encounter old tarot cards, or Art Deco may encounter Barnett Newman and striptease aesthetics. Bool weaves high art with less prestigious techniques to create works that revolve around shifts in meaning of materials, pictorial traditions, and notions of the feminine, the erotic, or the Oriental. The catalogue texts by Janneke de Vries and Christina Végh provide an introduction to fundamental aspects of Shannon Bool's artistic approach, while Monika Szewczyk's contribution approaches her work from a feminist perspective.