2022 FOGO ISLAND ARTS & Sternberg Press Publication
Nadia Belerique was born in Toronto, Canada, in the early 1980s, growing up around the time when Canadian singer-songwriter Mary Margaret O’Hara’s song “Body’s in Trouble” (1988) was released. The song is an important starting point for Belerique’s new work, which, like this track, is concerned with the experience of the physical form and its discontents. “Body’s in Trouble” has been praised for straddling a tension between tradition and formlessness, a characteristic that Belerique’s work also shares. In her work, everyday materials and art historical tropes are networked in ways that develop meaning but also remain open-ended, encouraging the viewer to follow visual clues but also bring their own meaning to bear on the work, all the while fitting into a carefully constructed set of relations.
Working across photography, sculpture, and installation, Belerique’s new body of work draws on both sincerity and satire to construct an installation to be entered that is simultaneously an image to be experienced. Working like a film director or set designer, Belerique carefully considers how objects are placed in space to create a scenario that is a scene to be experienced but also offers up a metaphorical scene for the imagination—as a means of questioning how images are mediated, while also considering how meaning is ascribed to objects.
The book features an introduction by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Claire Shea, an interview with Nadia Belerique and contributions from MoMA PS1 Director of Curatorial Affairs, Ruba Katrib in addition to Grazer Kunstverein Artistic Director Tom Engels. The catalogue is richly illustrated with original colour photography and installation views.
Published on the occasion of Nadia Belerique’s exhibition Body in Trouble curated by Claire Shea and Nicolaus Schafhausen and presented at the Fogo Island Gallery from July 29 to September 25, 2022.
Artist: Nadia Belerique
Editors: Claire Shea, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Contributors: Nadia Belerique, Tom Engels, Ruba Katrib, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Claire Shea
2022, English
15×21 cm, 96 Pages, 27 color ill., softcover
ISBN 978-1-915609-10-6
Series: Fogo Island Arts
Design: Studio Markus Weisbeck
Copublisher: Fogo Island Arts and Sternberg Press
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