Berlin Art Week 2023: Rachel Monosov | Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape
Schedule
Thu, 14 Sep, 2023 at 06:00 pm
Location
Centrum | Berlin, BE
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Berlin Art Week 2023 / Project space Award:Rachel Monosov - Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape
15 September - 1 October 2023
*opening on Thursday 14 September from 6 to 10 pm*
visiting hours: Fri - Sun from 12 to 6 pm
Curator: Jorgina Stamogianni
Centrum is excited to be part of the official program of Berlin Art Week 2023, as one of this year’s award-winning project spaces. Rachel Monosov will premiere a new performative piece during her solo exhibition Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape which takes place between 15 September - 1 October 2023.
Rachel Monosov questions power structures, the meaning of freedom, and space in relation to movement in her multidisciplinary practice with a focus on the relationship between body action and stillness. Her background as a Soviet-era child, her family’s immigration to Israel in 1991, and her move to Europe upon reaching adulthood fuels her focus on the relationship between the Body and the Nation-state.
In Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape Monosov threads together how geopolitical power struggles take shape by control of land and resources, implementing nationally or racially segregated labor, manipulating locations of ruins, transforming them into forests, and denying recognition of native land rights through legal means. The work comments on the broader notion that certain actions require a period of stillness and contemplation, even if it means letting go of existing crops and methods to pave the way for new growth of alternatives. As Mahmood Mamdani wrote, "One can be only the oppressor or the oppressed, the majority or the minority, the nation or the other’’. This new performative work by Rachel Monosov brings to the forefront the lasting impact blind beliefs have on our personal and natural environment.
Performances
Thu 14 September, at 19:45 & 20:45
Sat 16 September, at 16:30 & 17:30
Sun 17 September, at 16:30 & 17:30
Performers: Camilla Brogaard, Rachell Bo Clark, Julia Shelkovskaia
The exhibition Dead Earth, A Place of No Escape is part of Berlin Art Week 2023, and realised with the generous support of Catinca Tabacaru Gallery.
Rachel Monosov (b. 1987) lives and works in Berlin. She holds two MFAs in Filmmaking and Fine Art from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium, and a BA from Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Israel. Monosov’s work has been included in exhibitions at Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Art Institute of Chicago, Palazzo delle Espozitioni in Rome, 11th Bamako Biennale, 13th Biennale of Dakar, and the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. In 2019 she was awarded the Praxisstipendium of German Academy Rome Villa Massimo. Her work has been acquired into the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Block Museum at Northwestern University, and the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Monosov is a co-founder of the CTG Collective.
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