Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, OPERA (QM.15), exhibition view, Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, Paris (2022). Photo: Aurélien Mole. © Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster/ADAGP, Paris (2022).
OPERA (QM.15) (2016), an artwork by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, is taking up residence in Gallery 3 of the Bourse de Commerce, infusing it the presence of Maria Callas. In 2012, she began a series of performance works, or apparitions as she calls them, in which she embodies figures such as Bob Dylan, Emily Brontë, and Ludwig II of Bavaria, who together create M.2062, a fragmented opera with no beginning and no end, thus effacing any idea of a constant unit of time and action.
These performances, in which the artist lets herself be inhabited by other characters, are sometimes in the form of holographic projections that bring iconic performances to life once again: Sarah Bernhardt in the role of L’Aiglon or Klaus Kinski playing the possessed Fitzcarraldo. In January 2016, she turned to opera, transforming herself into Maria Callas. This apparition became its own work, OPERA (QM.15).
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