Kasper Kovitz's Photomontage Project Explores Art, Identity, and Disillusionment

Kasper Kovitz's photomontage project, Nun's Fret Not, depicts a nun who, after an epiphany, pursues a 'missionary artist' path through a mail-order art course, leading to disillusionment. The work, a continuation of efforts started in 2010 at icehouse, recontextualizes Kovitz's prior art into a meta-narrative examining themes like artist-audience dynamics, success versus obscurity, and the art market versus art education. All characters feature the same face: Litmus, an alter ego Kovitz created from an FBI shooting target. A future installment will involve the nun undergoing a sex change and transforming into a capitalist. The project was published on ARTMargins Online on June 5, 2013, with content available via MIT Press under a subscription model.