Artists

Andrea Fraser

Press release

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is pleased to present Untitled (Video, Audio, Objects), the first solo exhibition of Andrea Fraser in France. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation, Fraser emerged in the 1980s as a major figure in the field of institutional critique. She has used performance, video, installation, text, and a range of other mediums to investigate the social, economic, political, and psychological structures of the art world. Informed by sociology, psychoanalysis, conceptualism, and feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire, Fraser’s works exist at the extremes of systemic analysis and affective embodiment. The result was described by Pierre Bourdieu as “a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself.”

In the ground floor, lower gallery, and vaulted room, Fraser revisits her most notorious projects, Untitled, 2003, and proposes a sequel in the form of a new sculptural installation which, twenty years on, extends her exploration of the intersections of financial and affective economies in the contemporary art world. In the Showroom, a selection of books, texts, and graphic works represent Fraser’s on-going analysis of the political and economic structures of the art field.