Raffaella Cortese is pleased to present a second solo show at the gallery by acclaimed American artist Joan Jonas, renowned pioneer of performance and video.
Beginning in the 1960s, she placed female subjectivity at the center of her work, employing a complex linguistic repertoire including gestures, storytelling and images in movement. A tireless experimenter, Jonas explores the possibilities inherent to the interdisciplinary nature of art, a characteristic that has made her a point of reference for a younger generation of artists.
Jonas’ recent works mainly focus on the fragility of nature and its relationship with the human dimension, as in Reanimation, partly inspired by the writings of Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, and They Come to Us without a Word, the greater installation at the 56th Venice Biennale, to name but a few.
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