Claire Fontaine’s installation consists of two works, Patriarchy kills (love) and We are all clitoridian women, which denounce the dangers of a patriarchal culture and ignorance about female pleasure. They are LED-lit phrases that question our usual emotional and social context, bringing intimate issues into the architectural space. They give materiality to words and by interacting with bodies transform our perception of reality A tribute to Carla Lonzi: feminist, art critic, writer, theorist, poet. These luminous statements trigger questions rather than deliver answers and give materiality to words by making them interact with the outside world, changing our reading of reality And, with it, our interpretation of the world.
Claire Fontaine
An intimate encounter to get to know the eccentric personality of Claire Fontaine, the collective artist present at BASE with the installation Cancel Patriarchy in spring 2023. Claire Fontaine was founded by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale in 2004 in Paris. She uses different media and refuses the obligation to adopt a recognisable vocabulary of forms in her work, rather she approaches it as an ongoing experimental research, an ongoing exploration.
