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Rivane Neuenschwander First Love (2005/2011)
Rivane Neuenschwander employs everyday materials and phenomena in works centred on themes such as travel, translation and transitoriness.
Gastronomic Translations (2005/2011) has its point of departure in a shopping list that the artist found in Frankfurt. She sent it to two chefs and invited them to prepare a banquet only using the ingredients on the list. On the opening day, Bonniers Konsthall’s visitors can taste the result.
In First Love (2005/2011), viewers can describe their first love to a police artist who creates a “facial composite” – an image that has travelled a long way from the original object of love.
Rivane Neuenschwander was born in 1967 in Brazil, where she lives and works. Her most recent solo exhibitions include A Day Like Any Other at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA (2010) and New Museum, New York (2010); Dominó Caníbal [PAC MURCIA 2010]: Rivane Neuenschwander, Sala Verónicas, Murcia, Spain and At a Certain Distance, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. In 2011, her work will be shown at both Untitled: the 12th Istanbul Biennial and Our Magic Hour: How Much of the World Can We Know, the Yokohama Triennale.