The work originally conceived by the artist couple Hubbard / Birchler for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale re-constructs the life story of the American artist Flora Mayo. Mayo had a romantic relationship in the 1920s with the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. While he is now one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century, her work was de-stroyed, and her life forgotten. Hubbard / Birchler reanimate Mayos compelling biography from a feminist perspective, combining reconstruction and documentation to create a multilayered form of narrative. The catalogue, produced for the current exhibition at the Sammlung Goetz, elucidates the research the artists engaged in and documents the installa-tion in an impressive manner
The artists TERESA HUBBARD (*1965, Dublin, Ireland) and ALEXANDER BIRCHLER (*1962, Baden, Switzerland) are based in Austin, Texas, and Ber-lin and have been working together since 1990. Their installations include sculpture, photography, and film. They first exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1999.
