梅根·鲁尼(Megan Rooney)是一个神秘的叙事者,她以不同的艺术媒介,包括绘画、雕塑、装置、表演和语言,去创作互相交织的故事。身体是她作品里重复出现的元素,另外还有透过创作所累积的经验,包括在起点和终点的时候。她作品的主题来自自己的生活和四周的环境,而且经常取材自当下,同时她也会探索政治与社会对家庭与女性身体的无数影响。重复出现的人物与主题建构了梦境似的故事,这个故事从来都不是固定的,但又间接地呼应了当代最逼切的议题。
鲁尼统一地在面积200 x 150厘米的画布上作画,是一般女性张开双手时的长度。透过一层层优雅脱俗、经过打磨及重复涂上颜色的造形,她创作了抽象的故事,既不能辨识开始,也难以意识终结。评论家艾米莉·拉巴格(Emily LaBarge)写道 “每一幅绘画都是承载时间与空间的胶囊。它们是努力和关爱的产物,是让艺术家与画布展开亲密对话的平台,作品的内在仍然如脉搏般跳动。” 鲁尼在每一层造形之间加入了对比鲜明的颜色或生动的线条,目的是吸引观众的目光,然后用这些意想不到的元素去扰乱他们的视线。有形的造形在超凡脱俗的空间浮现又消失,仿佛在形成的过程中被捕捉。
艺术家独特的调色、对物料应用的敏感度与刺激观感的色彩运用,是她艺术手法的中心,统一了她跨媒体的作品。就如策展人安娜·莱娜·塞瑟(Anna Lena Seiser)所形容 “颜色变成野火,是一个有生命的元素,它可以变形并与其他主体重叠,吞噬它们,可以占据空间而且把所有东西编织在一起。” 鲁尼的大型壁画是短暂的创作以回应四周的建筑空间,它们经常与雕塑作品放置在一起,创造了互相包围的环境。制作雕塑的素材是家用物料、寻找到的物件与弃置的布料,而透过有触感的调色和灵巧的笔触,这些雕塑与鲁尼的画作有明显的联系。她的表演作品也一样,其中绘画的元素似乎有了自己的生命,舞者随着她散文诗的乐谱而翩跹起舞。
鲁尼定居伦敦,并在南非、巴西与加拿大成长。她在多伦多大学(University of Toronto)修毕文学学士课程,后来在2011年於伦敦大学金史密斯学院(Goldsmiths College, London)取得艺术文学硕士学位。她最近在不同的博物馆举行个人展览,包括萨尔茨堡艺术协会(Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg)(2020-21年)、多伦多当代艺术博物馆(Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto)(2020年)与杜塞尔多夫美术馆(Kunsthalle Düsseldorf)(2019年)。 她的表演《到处都是那里》(EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE)是联同编舞家添美托佩·亚祖斯-卡丁(Temitope Ajose-Cutting)与音乐家保罗·托尔森-内格尔(Paolo Thorsen-Nagel)一同创作的作品,于2019年在杜塞尔多夫美术馆首演。在这个表演的一年以前,鲁尼在伦敦蛇形画廊(Serpentine Galleries)的公园之夜(Park Nights)节目表演了《日落月升》(SUN DOWN MOON UP)。鲁尼的作品也在不同的团体展览展出,包括亚琛的路德维希国际艺术论坛(Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen)(2021年)、里昂双年展(Lyon Biennial)(2019年)、华沙现代美术博物馆(Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw)(2019及2017年)、巴黎东京宫(Palais de Tokyo, Paris)(2018年)、威尼斯双年展(Venice Biennale)(2017年)、倫敦大衛·罗伯茨艺术基金会(David Roberts Art Foundation, London)(2017及2014年)与巴黎老佛爷百货公司基金会(Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris)(2014年)等等。
2024
Echoes & Hours, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
2023
Flyer and the Seed, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2021
BONES ROOTS FRUITS, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
2020
EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE, performance, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Green, I Want You Green, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
HUSH SKY MURMUR HOLE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2019
TEETH & LIGHTNING, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
EVERYWHERE BEEN THERE, performance, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Fire On The Mountain, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
Cuckoo till I come back, Drei, Cologne, Germany
2017
Others got wings for flying, performance, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
MOMMA! MOMMA!, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Hullabaloo, Cordova, Vienna, Austria
2016
Animals on the bed, Seventeen, London, UK
Piggy Piggy, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
2015
Okie Dog on Santa Monica, Almanac Inn, Turin, Italy
2014
Tilia Americana, Opening Times - Digital Art Commissions
Affluent Insights, Limazulu Project Space, London, UK
Touching your face in a painting by the river, Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
2013
0% Promise, cur. Paul Pieroni, SPACE, London, UK
Everythings the same this is my dream, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, Germany
2024
2022
Saturation, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
Fugues in color, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2021
Sweet Lies. Rethinking Identity, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
2019
Where water comes together with other water, 15th Biennale de Lyon Art Contemporain, France
Paint, also known as Blood. Women, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Sarah Margnetti & Megan Rooney, Last Tango, Zürich, Switzerland
2018
CHILDHOOD: Another banana day for the dream-fish, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
SUN DOWN MOON UP, performance, Park Nights 2018, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
2017
(X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Ministry of Internal Affairs. Intimacy as Text, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Something Like You, ANDOR, London, UK
Poor Memory, Without Poetry Nothing is Possible, performance, Salon Suisse, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2016
Physical Fiction, Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands
f on your tongue, performance, Project 1049, LUMA Foundation, Peak Walk by Tissot, Glacier 3000, Gstaad, Switzerland
Kisses sweeter than wine, Treignac Projet, France
2015
Natural Instincts, Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland
Basic Instinct, Seventeen, London, UK
Last Days. Last Days. Last Days., performance, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
Sets of Poetry, performance, Cell Project Space, London, UK
WLGTDWI (What's Love Got to Do with It), SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
2014
Till the stars turn cold, S1 Artspace, Sheffield; Glasgow Sculpture Studio, Glasgow, UK
Frieze Performance Programme, London, UK
O Labor, Sister Continent, performance with Quinn Latimer, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
Pleasure & Charity, performance, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
read the room / you've got to, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
Pleasure Principles, Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Frac Île-de-France, Paris
Germany
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
Indonesia
Museum MACAN (Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara), West Jakarta
Poland
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Romania
MARe Museum (Muzeul de Artǎ Recentǎ/Museum of Recent Art), Bucharest
UK
The Scalpel, London, collection of Ho Bee Land
Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, London
Soho House, London
Zabludowicz Collection, London
USA
Ackland Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, NC
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), Miami, Florida
Ostillo Art Foundation, Austin, TX