LOUISE BONNET – ONSLAUGHT
2022-06-06In Onslaught, Bonnet focuses on corporeal fluids as objects of societal disgust, investigating art historical precedents for their depiction and considering the ways in which modern aesthetic and ideological conventions complicate the ways in which they are now received (“We are much more prudish about certain things now than people were in the 1500s,” she observes). The paintings explore our sense of mortification at our own bodies and the way they seem to betray us by leaking, sagging, or failing in various ways. “I’m interested in shame and the body in my paintings,” she states, “and bodily functions bring extra shame and embarrassment.”
Opposite – Projection 2, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2022
Gagosian
7/F Pedder Building
12 Pedder Street
Central Hong Kong
China
