Monica Bonvicini, 'Light Me Black', 2009
Bonvicini’s sculptures and installations aim to provoke an awareness of the architecture that surrounds them – be that public, private, institutional, urban or domestic – and the physical and psychological roles that that architecture plays in shaping a viewer’s identity – in terms of class, gender, sexuality and power. Making use of industrial building materials such as bricks, scaffolding, steel chains and sheet glass, Bonvicini’s work is neither polite nor apologetic. It is confrontational, derisive and antagonistic, as well as, at times, humorous.
