Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Textorama (2011) has its basis in an exhibition she produced for the Hispanic Society of America in 2009-2010. Her exhibition related to the institution’s famous research library. The calligrammatic wall is an exploration and continuation of this library, with excerpts and quotations from canonical as well as unknown works of various languages.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in 1965 in Strasbourg. She lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Her recent solo exhibitions include Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002); Tate Modern, London (2008) and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2004).