Overview
Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Andrea Fraser in Paris. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, 6 September from 6 to 8 pm at 79 rue du Temple.
Fraser is widely regarded as one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation. Since the mid-1980s, her groundbreaking work in the field of institutional critique has investigated the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural organizations, fields, and groups. She has used performance, video, text, and a range of other forms to explore the motivations of artists, collectors, gallerists, patrons, and art audiences, from financial investment to the pursuit of prestige to sexual fantasy to self-fulfillment. Combining the site-specific and research-based approaches of conceptualism with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire, Fraser's work is infused with incisive analysis, humor, and pathos. The result was described by Pierre Bourdieu as "a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself."