49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine opens exhibitions of works by Margaret Harrison and Florence Jung

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49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine opens exhibitions of works by Margaret Harrison and Florence Jung
Florence Jung writes scenarios that infiltrate reality. Her scripted situations are built around a system of clues, absences, and rumors.



METZ.- Margaret Harrison (Yorkshire, *1940) is an influential figure in the feminist art movement in the 1970s in the UK. Over the past 50 years, she has developed a body of thought focusing on the issues of class, gender and more generally the place of women in society. In Harrison’s first major exhibition in France, 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine highlights the diversity of her practice, which includes installations, paintings, drawings, collages, and writing. The work of this artist and activist challenges the visual canons and codes underlying the representation of women in society, as well as women’s self-perception.

Her drawings of the superheroes sporting stilettos and her portrait of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, as Bunny Boy, led to the police shutting down her first exhibition in London in 1971. In parallel, Harrison has engaged in a reflection, spanning her whole career, on labor conditions of the working classes. Attentive to economic and social developments in rural UK and United States, from the rise of Manchester and Liverpool in the late-19th century to the industrial crisis of the 1970s, which affected England as well as California, Margaret Harrison has produced an extensive body of work based on sociological surveys. She also examines Western cultural icons, exposing their normative potential and the power relationships they both replicate and perpetuate. Long available only to limited audiences, her work is now beginning to enjoy wider recognition and renewed relevance, encouraging us to go beyond binary approaches to race or sex.

Degrés Est : Florence Jung
June 28–October 6, 2019

Florence Jung writes scenarios that infiltrate reality. Her scripted situations are built around a system of clues, absences, and rumors. Based on social sciences, as well as literature and philosophy, Jung’s work explores the paradoxes of the contemporary individual, his or her relationship to uncertainty, and the narrative potential of suspicion.

For her exhibition at 49 Nord 6 Est – FRAC Lorraine, she has researched statistical data and results of opinion polls conducted among the residents of the Grand Est in order to create the profile of a typical individual. Jung’s project consists in an attempt to locate such a person, whose existence, inferred from figures and estimates, seems doubtful.

Florence Jung was born in 1986 in Lorraine, and is currently a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.










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