Egos and mirrors consists of largeformat paper cuts and is dedicated to the period of the Spanish flu and its influence on world politics in the context of the Paris Peace Conference about 100 years ago. The infection of US President Woodrow Wilson, who was physically weakened at the most important point of the negotiations, had serious consequences for the meetings of the four victorious powers. France, Great Britain, Italy and the USA discussed the conditions for the German Reich, which was excluded from the negotiations having lost the war. The results led, among other things, to the Peace Treaty of Versailles, which was considered too harsh by the German Empire and ultimately destabilised international economic relations. In front of a reflecting surface, Boghiguian presents selected scenes and figures from this time, so allowing the present and the past to meet directly.
Egos and Mirrors, 2021
mixed media installation
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Cut outs, encaustic on paper, threads and mirrors
Dimensions variable
Installation view, IVAM 2022
Fotos: Juan García Rosell / IVAM
Text by MGK Siegen 2022
Anna Boghiguian
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Anna Boghiguian was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1946 and has Armenian roots. She studied political and social science at the American University of Cairo and holds a BFA in fine arts and music from the Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Since the early 1970s, her art has emerged from various movements around the globe, translating a nomadic experience and gaze into painting and installation, collages and books. As a traveling artist, she tells of how people and ideas, relationships and goods vary and evolve, sometimes bright and fluid, sometimes bound in inequality and oppression. Boghiguian's broad insight into literature and worlds of thought makes her art a profound source of contemplation. In 2015 Boghiguian received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and in 2024 she will be awarded the 30th Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize of the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Her work has been featured in major solo exhibitions around the world, most recently at the Power Plant, Toronto (2023) Kunsthaus Bregenz in Venice (2022), IVAM, Valencia (2021), SMAK, Ghent (2020), Tate St. Ives (2019), the New Museum (2018) and the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2018) and in numerous international group shows including the 22nd Sydney Biennale (2020), Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2019), the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (2017) and the dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012).
- Anna Boghiguian
- Candice Breitz
- Marco A. Castillo
- CATPC
- Alice Creischer
- Chto Delat
- Clegg & Guttmann
- Eugenio Dittborn
- Heinrich Dunst
- Anna Ehrenstein
- Estate of León Ferrari
- Peter Friedl
- Sophie Gogl
- Estate of Barbara Hammer
- The Cabinet of Ramon Haze
- Hiwa K
- Simon Lehner
- Renzo Martens
- Chris Martin
- Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
- Oswald Oberhuber
- Mario Pfeifer
- Dierk Schmidt
- Tina Schulz
- Santiago Sierra
- Michael E. Smith
- Franz Erhard Walther
- Clemens von Wedemeyer
- Tobias Zielony