Chiara Fumai

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Chiara Fumai (* 1978 in Rome ; † August 16, 2017 in Bari ) was an Italian performance artist .

Fumai grew up in Bari . She worked as a DJ , produced music herself and played techno music. She has appeared in Italian galleries with video works , performances and lectures . The dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012 was their first major international show.

Chiara Fumai lived mainly in Milan .

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Fumai worked with the photo and video media as well as "artifacts", but was in the broadest sense a live performance artist.

In various works she critically dealt with the topic of how knowledge is (re) produced in the media . In 2008 she created a fictional biography of her father as a pop singer in the 1980s in her work “Chiara Fumai presents Nico Fumai”, citing the populist methods of Italian private television. In “There Is Something You Should Know” (2011) she invented an esoteric school (“Scuola Iniziatica Smithiana”), which drew her theories from the work of the queer underground filmmaker Jack Smith , who was one of the first directors of the camp - Culture applies and died of AIDS in 1989 .

With her “Moral Exhibition House” staged at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012, she gave an anarchist-feminist answer to the witch's house (“ Hansel and Gretel ”) of the Brothers Grimm , who lived and worked in Kassel for a long time and in the city's cultural memory are very present. Fumai linked the biographies of the two historical female figures Annie Jones and Zalumma Agra, which were exhibited as fairground attractions, with Hegelian dialectics and references to modern occultism . Jones is considered the most famous bearded woman of the 19th century, while Zalumma Agra was celebrated as an example of the particular beauty and genetic "purity" of the " Caucasian " ( white ) " race ". Other performances presented by Fumai there were based on texts by Carla Lonzi and the radical feminist manifesto “I say I” by the group “Rivolta Femminile” of the Italian women's movement of the 1970s.

In 2013 she received the “Premio Furla” award for her performance “I did not say or mean 'Warning'”, which has been awarded to outstanding young artists on the modern Italian art scene since 2000. This work by Fumai takes a fresh start in the fight against the social image of the eternally passive and marginalized woman . The jury particularly praised the energy and confrontational dialectic with which Fumai took up pressing social issues of feminism , performative speech and activism and placed them in continuity with feminist and artistic works of an earlier generation.

In a specially revised version for the premises of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia , "I did not Say or Mean 'Warning" was performed again by Fumai in connection with the 55th Venice Art Biennale .

Awards

  • Premio Furla 2013

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2011: MACRO Testaccio , Rome
  • 2011: Muratcentoventidue, Bari
  • 2008: Careof, Milan

Group exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morta a 39 anni l'artista Chiara Fumai. Tragedia per l'arte italiana. On: artribune.com from August 16, 2017
    Bari piange l'artista 39enne Chiara Fumai: era conosciuta in tutto il mondo. On: bari.repubblica.it from August 17, 2017
  2. ↑ dradio .de: The bearded and the beautiful. Chiara Fumai's Tribute to Two Special Women from September 3, 2012. Accessed July 2, 2013.
  3. ^ A b c Elke Koepping : Contemporary, Artistic, Queer. In: L-Mag July / August 2012, pp. 18–20, here: p. 20.
  4. ↑ nomasfoundation.com: There Is Something You Should Know Retrieved on July 2, 2013.
  5. ↑ d13.documenta.de: Chiara Fumai, Shut Up. Actually, Talk (The world will not explode) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / d13.documenta.de
  6. ↑ a b fondazionefurla.org Retrieved July 2, 2013.
  7. ↑ a b c querinistampalia.org: Chiara Fumai. Winner of the ninth edition of the Furla Prize . Accessed July 2, 2013.
  8. ^ Fondazionefurla.org: Furla Art Award. Add fire. Winner. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
  9. ↑ a b documenta .de dOCUMENTA (13). Participant: Chiara Fumai ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www3.documenta.de
personal data
SURNAME Fumai, Chiara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 16th August 2017
Place of death Bari