Norma Jeane
invited by Giovanni Carmine

photo: Blaise Adilon		photo: Blaise Adilon

« Potlach 11.1 / The dead end strategy », 2007
Terreau, végétaux, système d’arrosage et éclairage
480 x 480 cm
Courtesy de l'artiste.
Remerciements aux Dr Giusto Giovannetti et Dr Walter Ferrero.
Avec le soutien du CCS valle d'Aosta (Centro Culture Sperimentali) et de SMAT Gruppo (Societa Metropolitana Acque Torino)

NORMA JEANE
born 1962 in Los Angeles lives and works in Italy
Norma Jeane was born the night Marilyn Monroe died. Appropriating the star’s background, renouncing the notion of a specific gender and creating multiple personalities for him/herself, Norma Jeane produces a host of cut-and-paste versions of his/her character in which various personality traits coexist. Thus he/she is a disembodied artist possessing no biography apart from his/her artistic career. Norma Jeane’s installations and other works bear on the issue of consumer goods and give rise to climactic situations revolving around interaction and rejection.

GIOVANNI CARMINE
born 1975 Bellinzona, Switzerland lives and works in Zürich and St- Gallen, Switzerland
Director of the Kunsthalle in St. Gallen, Giovanni Carmine is also a freelance curator who organises exhibitions in such institutions as the Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Helmhaus Zurich and the Swiss Institute in New York. He also writes regularly for “Flash Art”, “Kunst-Bulletin” and “Parkett”.