MONICA BONVICINI
SHE LIES

BJØRVIKA FJORD, OSLO
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2010


She Lies is a monumental permanent sculpture built out of stainless steel and glass panels and floats amidst the fjord on the water. By turning around its own axis in correspondence to the tides, the sculpture offers changing views through the reflections on the mirrored and semitransparent surfaces. Bonvicini’s sculpture is a three dimensional interpretation of Caspar David Friedrich’s painting Das Eismeer, 1823-24. It is particularly referring to the central motive of the work: the massive piles of ice that function as a symbol for power and magnificence of the north.

Permanent installation on the Bjørvika Fjord, in front of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet, Oslo.

Styrofoam, concrete pontoon, stainless steel, reflecting glass panels, glass splinters, anchoring system, size above sea level: 1700 x 1600 x 1200 cm
© Image Monica Bonvicini, Erik Berg

FEATURED ARTIST

MONICA BONVICINI

Monica Bonvicini (b. 1965 in Venice, Italy) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied in Berlin and at Cal Arts, Valencia, CA. From 2003 – 2017, she was Professor for Performative Arts, Spatial Strategies, and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Beginning in October 2017 she assumed the Professorship for Sculpture at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany. Bonvicini has earned several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (1999), the National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Berlin, Germany (2005), and Oskar-Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, Austria (2020).

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