Work from the Collection

Virginia Ham

Artist: Morag Keil
Date of creation: 2011
Domain: Installation
Medium: Installation
Materials: Wood, Ribbon, Organic materials, Plastic, Various materials
Dimensions: Variable dimensions
Collection: Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition: 2013
Morag Keil, Virginia Ham, Installation, 2011, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © Raphael Chipault

Based on found objects, Morag Keil’s installations are always a form of social critique. Made up of rails, tyres, fencing, abandoned personal items and different forms of debris, this delineated, off-limits zone seems to have been the setting for some sort of traumatic event, perhaps a crime or accident. Several portraits scattered on the ground may pay homage to victims— all women. This work is actually about violence toward women and the desire to control their bodies. Indeed, the title of the work refers to a vulgar expression used by the singer Marilyn Manson to speak of the vagina. The photographs that respond to the floor installation show, in the vein of many advertisements, women without faces, amputated of their identity and framed by watercolours of flowers—some stereotypical images of virginity.


Exhibition

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Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)
from 11 Oct 2019 to 16 Feb 2020

À propos de l'artiste

Morag Keil

Born in 1985 in Édimbourg, Écosse

Morag Keil mobilise des techniques aussi diverses que la peinture, la sculpture, la vidéo et l’installation. Constituées d’objets trouvés (vernis à ongles, sacs à dos, mannequins féminins, câbles, etc.), ses installations récentes sont une critique de la société du spectacle et des clichés du capitalisme qui transparaissent dans les supports visuels des mass media et de la publicité.

Née en 1985 à Édimbourg (Écosse), Morag Keil a étudié à la Glasgow School of Art de 2002 à 2006, puis au Chelsea College of Art & Design de Londres de 2008 à 2009. Elle est lauréate du Dewar Art Award 2008-2009 et du prix Lafayette 2010.
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