Joana Vasconcelos's Feminist Art Takes Over Ascona Museum

Key facts

• Joana Vasconcelos's first solo show at a Swiss public institution is at Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Ascona.
• The exhibition 'Joana Vasconcelos – Flower of my desire' includes over 40 works from the 1990s to today.
• The show was strongly desired by director Mara Folini.
• At the entrance, visitors must pass through 'Wash and Go' (1998), two mechanical rollers covered in colored tights.
• The monumental textile sculpture 'La Baronessa' (2023) is ten meters tall and references Marianne von Werefkin.
• 'Fashion Victims' (2018) features three nude dolls gradually covered by motorized threads.
• 'Coração Independente Vermelho #3' (2013) uses over two thousand red plastic disposable forks.
• Vasconcelos has participated in three Venice Biennales and was the first woman to exhibit at Versailles and Guggenheim Bilbao.
• She collaborated with Dior under Maria Grazia Chiuri.
• An interview titled 'I am the female version of Duchamp' will appear in the Allemandi catalogue.
• Vasconcelos views the intersection of art, fashion, and design as fertile ground.
• She rejects the label of kitsch, describing her work as a transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary.