In Spain, Ilona Szwarc has a solo exhibition, Mother Mould, at Fahrenheit Madrid. Opening September 27 in Madrid, the show of Szwarc's photographs and sculpture will be on view through November 12, 2023.
In Mother Mould, Los Angeles-based photographer Ilona Szwarc invents a fetishistic poetics around the process of sculpting a woman’s torso. Szwarc documents herself creating a mould of a model’s body, coating breasts in bright green silicone. She then abstracts the raw materials of the casting process in a series of photographs that reframe the object as pure color and form. Mother Mould builds on Szwarc’s long-standing fascination with acts of transformation, props and prosthetics,and the production of identity, an inquiry rooted in Szwarc’s immigrant background.
September 27, 2023
