September 13–November 19, 2011

Monday–Saturday: 10 am–5 pm
Thursday: 10 am–8 pm
closed Sundays and holidays

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery | Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A group show featuring eight contemporary Mexican artists:

Natalia Almada
Arturo Hernández Alcázar
Edgardo Aragón
Marcela Armas
Manuel Rocha Iturbide
Mauricio Limón
Teresa Margolles
Hector Zamora

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Alfond Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a "readymade artist" and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people's work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box — as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes — there is always the possibility of what she calls the "human strike." Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.

Fontaine's work is currently on view in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA.

Sponsored by the Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artists Fund.