Goshka Mucaga - curating of items.
“She creates installations in which she appropriates the work of other artists, archive materials, ready-mades, but also objects of her own making. She communicates using the techniques and tactics of a museum exhibit or an archive (because of this, her art is often compared to that of Marcel Broodthaers). These are methods that are usually ascribed to curators rather than to artists. Macuga herself has said:
I am an artist who is trying to extend my activities by being a curator, a historian, a history-teller, a critic, archivist, exhibition designer, architect, composer, gallerian, sociologist, biologist, film-maker, collector, photographer, performer, magician etc. … Her appropriation-based intervention posed questions about ownership, information flow, the possibility of using this information, as well as about the freedom of interpretation when taking advantage of available sources.” (Culture.pl, Karol Sienkiewicz, July 2009. Updated by HSz April 2020.At: https://culture.pl/en/artist/goshka-macuga (Accessed 04.06.2021)
Goshka Mucaga's work is like a process of learning through rethinking. Such works allow us to redesign the event, suggest a different interpretation. And this is also a kind of analysis. The artist looks beyond just one work. She creates a general feeling in which everything can be, both the conference table and the gallery walls.
Cosima Von Bonin - using space to display of her immediate environment.
“Bonin: I grew up in Kenya by the Indian Ocean. There are decorator crabs and sea stars there. My best friends were two killer mussels. I loved it there and then my parents imported me to Austria.» (The Brooklyn Rail, 2018 Art In Conversation, COSIMA VON BONIN with Eleanor Heartney At: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/art/COSIMA-VON-BONIN-with-Eleanor-Heartney (Accessed 06.06.2021)
The artist works with a lot of media. She introduces music, performance into the presentation of her ideas, which creates an overall feeling of the space. The use of soft toys or images from cartoons sends us back to childhood. The territory of the gallery is no longer a gallery, but a theatre with actors, decorations and spectators, but without a parterre.
Sylvie Fleury- disguising and distorting the original surface with materiality.
“she prompts questions about the fetishisation of luxury commodities and brands, as well as gendered patterns of consumption.” At: https://ropac.net/artists/43-sylvie-fleury/ (Accessed 22.06.2021)
I get the feeling that the artist is very critical. I understand that this is one of the approaches in art, but for me, there is no aesthetic practicality. Here I mean, the possibility of living together with these objects at home. I would not want to surround myself with goods from the supermarket - bags, carts and other "glossy" items.
Masking and distorting the original surface is, in my opinion, a very straightforward and ordinary technique. But in addition to the theme that the artist is trying to discuss through his/her works, it can be seen as a defiant spot. That will attract and direct the viewer in the right-thinking direction.