Villa Serpentara Fellowship 2024
Vita
Dominique Hurth is an artist working with installations, sculptures and editions. Her starting point is often a narrative present in localities or images. Often concentrated on the form, long and detailed research is strongly embedded in the development of her installations. It is through archival research, writing, and material experiments that the works develop, and it is through editing that the installation operates in the exhibition space. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, and her latest book “Stutters” was published by Printed Matter (NYC, 2021).
Residency
In recent years, she has been investigating female Nazi perpetrators, focusing on the figure of the female concentration camp guard. Taking the guard’s uniform as a starting point, she has examined the representations and narratives of female perpetration, its gender-stereotyping and trivialisation from the post-war period to the present day. At Serpentara, she will edit her new book and weave together research, images and texts gathered over the years from memorials, state archives, military collections and costume and theatre depots in order to look closely at the textile history and object biography of the uniform, and highlight notions of forced labour, violence, and gender representation contained within the uniform itself.