Doll House Blues

Solo show
Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva
January 19 – February 22, 2024
With Doll House Blues, Audrey Guttman offers an elaborate body of new work that keenly situates “the doll house” as a figurative site of intimacy and spectacle, ultimately dissecting the mechanisms of beauty and façade. Guttman wields blue cyanotype prints, collage, mixed media and sculpture to challenge our fractured performances of self—positioning “the doll house” as the metaphorical nucleus where these multiplicities converge. The show asks: How do we flee the confining “houses” of self, of performance, of scrutiny? It also considers the prospect of escape, wondering: How might we subvert those boundaries and smash their walls? - Excerpt from the text by Leila Renee A public Art Talk took place during Art Genève on January 25th with Séverine Redon.

Views

Doll House Blues, Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva — installation view 1
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Works

I, underneath, 2022
I, underneath, 2022
Abrasion on paper, lead frame
28 × 21 cm
Breathe, 2023
Breathe, 2023
Cyanotype on paper in found wooden mini-altarpiece
22 × 24 cm
C’est quoi un bon coup ?, 2023
C’est quoi un bon coup ?, 2023
Pastel and collage on archival pigment print, oak frame
67 × 90 cm
Le marteau des sorcières, 2023
Le marteau des sorcières, 2023
Cyanotype on canvas, lead frame
37 × 39,5 cm
Epistemi, 2023
Epistemi, 2023
Mixed media
25 × 10 cm
Philosophie de la modernité, 2023
Philosophie de la modernité, 2023
Cyanotype on lace doily, lead frame
30 × 22 cm
Smile, 2023
Smile, 2023
Cyanotype on paper and antique wooden try squares mounted on cardboard
26 × 26 cm

Press Release

Selected Press

Photo: Julien Gremaud