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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, chronotopes & dioramas

September 23, 2009–June 27, 2010, Dia at the Hispanic Society

Overview

Commissioned by Dia, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s latest project offers an annex to the world renowned research library at the Hispanic Society of America. Gonzalez-Foerster expands and updates that historic collection with a range of twentieth-century literature by some forty authors, whose texts will be installed in a trio of dioramas by reference to their place of origin in one of three distinct geographical regions: the desert, the tropics, and the North Atlantic.

Artist

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1965. She lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.

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Photo: Don Stahl

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: chronotopes & dioramas

chronotopes & dioramas explores key themes developed in Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's site-specific 2009–2010 installation at Dia at the Hispanic Society of America.

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