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Monko, Marge
Free Love
2013
| Object description | 10 pigment prints, 4 facsimiles, 1 vintage postcard |
|---|---|
| Object category | installations |
| Dimensions |
Rahmenmaß:
height: 75 cm,
width: 50,4 cm,
depth: 1,8 cm,
height: 58,6 cm,
width: 43,8 cm,
depth: 1,8 cm,
height: 17,8 cm,
width: 22,5 cm,
depth: 3 cm
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| Year of acquisition | 2014 |
| Inventory number | G 1327/0 |
| Creditline | mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien |
| Rights reference | Monko, Marge |
| Further information about the person | Monko, Marge [GND] |
At the center of Marge Monko’s video and photo works lies an examination of social developments in a post-socialist context. The artist traces the changes in gender-based role models that were inserted into Estonian culture by neoliberalism after the end of the Soviet era. In her works Monko portrays a society undergoing change and refers to the connections between the communist past and present day identity models. In “Free Love” Monko establishes the linkages between history and the present in the context of questions of gender identities and hierarchies. The historical pivot consists of a 1905 newspaper report in the Estonian daily, “Postimees”. It scandalizes schoolgirls who had relationships with socialist Russian students. The article shows the contemporary opinion leaders’ hate of gender roles and incipient indications of feminist emancipation in the oncoming revolutionary socialism. In this work Monko confronts material—pictorial and written—about the school in former times with a series of photos of present-day graduates. In doing so she draws attention to both the historical fundament of the movement for emancipation and to the responsibility the present generation have to that history.
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