Counterfeit Currency
An exhibition by Genevieve Gaignard, on view at The Flag Art Foundation from September 13th - September 22nd, 2018, dives into heavy subjects in society like race, gender, beauty standards and class.
Genevieve translates these subjects through creating fictional personas and various staged environments (for example, the bathroom above).
“Gaignard’s self-reflexive stage-like installations create an undercurrent of displacement and awareness that everything on view is a construction.” - Counterfeit Currency press release
In addition to these “mise-en-abîme” environments Gaignard covers the walls with photographs of herself experimenting with different realities of her identity as a female. She sites Divine, and film director John Waters as her "inspiration for the employment of kitsch as a methodology to disarm and engage viewers.” - Counterfeit Currency press release
Genevieve Gaignard is a Los Angeles based artist whose work focuses on photographic self-portraiture, sculpture, and installation to explore race, femininity, class, and their various intersections - Gaignard's Website
Much of Genevieve’s art stems from her experience being born mixed-race, with a black father and white mother, and how that affected her personal identity as well as how she felt she fit into society.
Gaignard was born in Massachusetts but now lives in Los Angeles and is represented by The Shulamit Nazarian. The Shulamit Nazarian represents other emerging and mid-tier artists such as Trenton Doyle Hancock, Wendell Gladstone, and Summer Wheat.
