Femmy Otten - The Mountains and the Vulva, 2024 - Castel Gardena / Fischburg

Femmy Otten, The Mountains and the Vulva, 2024. Installation with Three Sculptures in Linden Wood. Variable Dimensions. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Supported by Mondriaan Fund and The Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

La nrescida de Femmy Otten zelebrea l corp dla persona te uni si pert y l ie caraterisà da na lidëza assoluta. L’arista se muev cun naturalëza danter lëures sun l lën, dessënies a rispl, a tempera, depënc y performance y la mescëida referimënc a opres dl’Antichità tlassica, dl Medieve y dl Renascimënt. Otten se lieia a na vedla tradizion, ma la chier ora de fé ju i corps dedora dal’ert dl passà y stluj nsci n uet dla storia. L resultat ie lëures zënza n tëmp che trata de argumënc universei coche l amor, passé via danter i gëndri y la maternità, ma che possa nce unii udui sciche na seria de autoretrac. “Mi vester ntim ie mi mpuls, la daudanza ie na mancianza de empatia cun sé nstës” dij l’artista te si rimes che la à metù adum per The Parliament of Marmots.

Tl Ciastel de Gherdëina (Fischburg) prejënta Otten na seria nueva de si opres, The Mountains and the Vulva, tres chëles che la tol ca simboi universei de fertilità coche la vulva, che vën dant te cultures defrëntes y te tëmps defrënc y l ie tl medem mumënt na reprejentazion ntima lieda te na forma sterscia a si vita: “Ue fé ancunté la tradizion cun la trasgrescion, cun l daunì, cun la perzezion y cun la stories zënza mëterman y zënza fin”. Hourglass ie n’opra de lën che se stiza sun n lëur bele fat dant, Days undressed, che duplichea, crieia la forma de na ëura a sablon. Tl’opra vën l passé dl tëmp reprejentà tres pertes dl corp, la runfles, la faudes, la pertes dl corp ruinedes dal amor vën a lum sun la spersa dla scultura y ie l’ëures a sablon. (M.P.

FEMMY OTTEN 

Femmy Otten (1981, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lives and works in The Hague. Her work steps beyond the stereotyped view of gender, imposed standards, taboos, guilt or shame. Recently her work has been exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam; Kunsthal and SMAK, Gent; De Warande, Turnhout; M HKA, Antwerp; Drents Museum, Assen; Museum M, Louvain; Rijksmuseum, Fons Welters and P///akt, Amsterdam. She took part in the 14th Istanbul Biennial. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including SCHUNCK* Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Voorlinden, M HKA, Drents Museum and AkzoNobel Foundation. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and Atelier Holsboer, Cité Internationales des Arts in Paris. In 2013 she was the recipient of the de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs.

Femmy Otten - The Mountains and the Vulva, 2024 - Castel Gardena / Fischburg

Femmy Otten, The Mountains and the Vulva, 2024. Installation with Three Sculptures in Linden Wood. Variable Dimensions. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina 9. Supported by Mondriaan Fund and The Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

La nrescida de Femmy Otten zelebrea l corp dla persona te uni si pert y l ie caraterisà da na lidëza assoluta. L’arista se muev cun naturalëza danter lëures sun l lën, dessënies a rispl, a tempera, depënc y performance y la mescëida referimënc a opres dl’Antichità tlassica, dl Medieve y dl Renascimënt. Otten se lieia a na vedla tradizion, ma la chier ora de fé ju i corps dedora dal’ert dl passà y stluj nsci n uet dla storia. L resultat ie lëures zënza n tëmp che trata de argumënc universei coche l amor, passé via danter i gëndri y la maternità, ma che possa nce unii udui sciche na seria de autoretrac. “Mi vester ntim ie mi mpuls, la daudanza ie na mancianza de empatia cun sé nstës” dij l’artista te si rimes che la à metù adum per The Parliament of Marmots.

Tl Ciastel de Gherdëina (Fischburg) prejënta Otten na seria nueva de si opres, The Mountains and the Vulva, tres chëles che la tol ca simboi universei de fertilità coche la vulva, che vën dant te cultures defrëntes y te tëmps defrënc y l ie tl medem mumënt na reprejentazion ntima lieda te na forma sterscia a si vita: “Ue fé ancunté la tradizion cun la trasgrescion, cun l daunì, cun la perzezion y cun la stories zënza mëterman y zënza fin”. Hourglass ie n’opra de lën che se stiza sun n lëur bele fat dant, Days undressed, che duplichea, crieia la forma de na ëura a sablon. Tl’opra vën l passé dl tëmp reprejentà tres pertes dl corp, la runfles, la faudes, la pertes dl corp ruinedes dal amor vën a lum sun la spersa dla scultura y ie l’ëures a sablon. (M.P.)

FEMMY OTTEN 

Femmy Otten (1981, Amsterdam, Netherlands) lives and works in The Hague. Her work steps beyond the stereotyped view of gender, imposed standards, taboos, guilt or shame. Recently her work has been exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam; Kunsthal and SMAK, Gent; De Warande, Turnhout; M HKA, Antwerp; Drents Museum, Assen; Museum M, Louvain; Rijksmuseum, Fons Welters and P///akt, Amsterdam. She took part in the 14th Istanbul Biennial. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including SCHUNCK* Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Voorlinden, M HKA, Drents Museum and AkzoNobel Foundation. She was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and Atelier Holsboer, Cité Internationales des Arts in Paris. In 2013 she was the recipient of the de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs.