Sonia Boyce is one of the artists featuring in ‘Alles Maskerade’, Mewo Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany. Until February 2015.
www.mewo-kunsthalle.de for further information about the exhibition.
Mother Sallies, 2007.
Sonia Boyce (1962) lives and works in London. She studied art at East Ham College and Stourbridge College of Art and her practice spans a range of media including photography, installation and text.
So Amazing.
Boyce presented the installation ‘Like Love’ in2009 in Spike Island, Bristol.
Spike Island presents a new multi-media installation Like Love – Part One by British artist Sonia Boyce (1962). This new body of work includes drawings, prints, hand-made wallpaper and an animation. Like Love – Part One has been developed through a residency with The Meriton School for Young Parents, Bristol.
Pillow Case.
Central to Boyce’s practice is the act of working with other people in what she terms “improvised collaborations”, and here the artist has taken extracts from conversations with young parents, creating a visual and textual dialogue that speaks equally of young desires and insecurities. This new installation does not, however, set out to be read as a portrait of the young women nor does Boyce intend to expose private lives in the public realm. Instead, many of the quotes are derived from the students’ responses to a work of fiction. That said, the pervasive use of a photographic group portrait of Boyce’s collaborators, which cleverly manifests itself as a recurring semi-abstract motif within an expanse of wallpaper, subtly pays homage to the artist’s associates, while avoiding sentimentality or affectation. In other works, through choices of typography, the artist has re-interpreted quotes to create a series of artworks that produce a fragmentary experience of longing and raise wider questions about the nature of due care in contemporary life.
Installation view Love Like, 2009.
Like Love in its widest sense explores universal ideas around the concept of care and community cohesion – the emotion we invest in others and in the making of works of art. Taking as its inspiration Roland Barthes’, A Lover’s Discourse, Boyce uses the combination of labour intensive and utilitarian processes to underscore the testimony, adamant posturing, ambivalence, longing and sometimes-tenuous nature of relationships.
(press release)
I think he wanted it, 2009.
