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Raphaëlle de Groot
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Phantasms of Interpretation
Portraits de clients (2007) is the title of a performative intervention presented by Raphaëlle de Groot (b. 1974) inside a disused bank building in downtown Ottawa. In this work, de Groot invited visitors to engage with her in the creation of "blind" collaborative portraits of past clients of the bank. Building on my experience of this work, this thesis examines Portraits de clients in relation to its immediate critical and artistic context. A series of entries analyzing the intervention's relational procedures and somatic effects, as well as its complex relation to its institutional context, serve to bring the most important features of the work into relief. This thesis also queries the st...
Raphaëlle de Groot
Installation, performance and video are just some of the strategies the multidisciplinary artist employs; De Groot's practice is less defined by discipline than by the projects she organizes. Her vast undertakings have led her to the hearts of realities as diverse as religious communities, textile workers and the blind. Through multiple contacts with the individuals concerned and the exhaustive gathering of signs of their longstanding activity, she creates exhibitions that act as living testimony to worlds most of us barely know. Superbly illustrated, this monograph explores the 2012 Sobey Art Award-winning artists unique vision, and how she challenges the accepted ideas of what an artist should do and be.
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8 x 5 x 363 +1
8x5x363+1 is a project by Raphaëlle de Groot and Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, realised together with the workers of the Cerruti Mill in Biella (Italy). Besides this publication, an exhibition for the operatives of the Mill took place in the assembly hall of the factory from 30th of April to 27th of July. On the day of the opening of the exhibition there has been a round table at Cittadellarte, gathering some workers and the experts invited to take part in the project, Raphaëlle de Groot and Enrico Correale, human resources manager of the Cerruti Mill.
