Ennoia, 2001 Charcoal on paper, 11 x 11 inches.
Courtesy Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal. Photo: Herman Feldhaus.
Skulenie, 2003 Charcoal on photographic backdrop paper,
85 x 105 inches. Collection of Asher Remy-Toledo, New York. Photo: Herman Feldhaus.
Short Biographical Paragraph
Monika Weiss' work has been exhibited among others at
Kunsthaus Dresden, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Chelsea Art Museum and Wyspa Institute of Art, and is part
of public collections such as Albertina Museum, Vienna. In 2005 a retrospective "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers. Installation, drawing, performance,
video and sound, 1999-2005" was shown at Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, and reviewed in The New York Times. Weiss' work makes frequent use
of the artist's body and is concerned with relationships between history, memory and presence. "Weiss' installations are structured as a
counterpoint between technological media (video projection) and the ancient activity of drawing, presented in a primal state inseparable from
the body as a whole. Recently she has been exploring the prostrate body as an apparently paradoxical sign of resistance to oppressive and
militaristic cultures" (Guy Brett). In one of her most acclaimed works Ennoia the artist immerses herself for several hours inside a water-filled
sculpture, while a projected image of the immersion mirrors her action. Born in Poland, the artist arrived to USA in 1996 as Visiting Professor at
Georgia State University. Weiss lives and works in New York City and is currently Assistant Professor at Washington College.
