Mika Rottenberg at the Venice Biennale
Mika Rottenberg presents her installation NoNoseKnows at this year’s Venice Biennale.
Reviewed in the New York Times, the work takes on the subject of the pearling industry in China. A questioning and discomfiting look at the issue at hand, it occupies an edge somewhere between continuity and concern through a process of cause and effect, beautiful details in the surround, and all under the steady metronome of Rottenberg’s gaze.
Interviewed by Border Crossings in Issue 117 Production, Meeka Walsh introduces the artist’s work: “In a carefully held, and I’d say respectful, parody of production and labour, the artist examines the seemingly inevitable human engagement with manufacture and value, distribution and excess.”
Visit the Biennale if you’re up Venice-way, or purchase Volume 30 No 1 of Border Crossings’ to learn more about Mika Rottenberg.
Video still from Cheese, 2007, c-print, 17 x 25”. Courtesy Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York.
