Charlotte Moth

Charlotte Moth

BornNationalityBased In
1978N/AParis
Biography

The work of Charlotte Moth places itself lightly in the world (...) Strong art-historical accounts of the period from 1990 onwards are hard to find, but Ina Blom’s book On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture identifies some at least of the conditions that a group of mostly European artists were responding to in this period. Blom identifies style – notably of interiors, environments and spaces that are becoming simultaneously public and private – as a new area of concern, and as a somewhat confusing twist on the earlier twentieth-century avant-garde preoccupation with the merging of art and life. Moth’s work can be seen to share characteristics with artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tobias Rehberger (among a larger group of artists discussed by Blom), in that the space of the gallery is strongly needed as the container for a complex combination of illumination, objects, furnishings and display items, histories, arrangements and images, not all of which have the same weight, physical insistence or sculptural presence. Moth does not make exhibitions that are crowded or confusing, but a complexity and a degree of uncertainty – ‘lightness’ is just one aspect of this – is folded into the objects and situations she makes (...) ‘Sculpture’ is an abiding concern for Moth, but disconcertingly, it may be produced as a side effect of other motives, as though it cannot be aimed for directly. The persistence of sculpture is consistently tested against other conditions of display and other types of spaces: living spaces, working spaces (the studio) and also spaces of representation, study and commerce. As sculpture – which is both a potential class of objects and a historical term for them that we now use uncertainly – moves through these different spaces, it seems to have become lighter. This lightness is neither a cause for celebration – as though in victory over ‘sculpture’, mass and embodiment – nor a reason for premature mourning. Lightness is perhaps more simply a condition to be felt and known. ...

Selected Artworks
Blues reflecting the greens
Charlotte Moth
Blues reflecting the greens, 2021
90cm
placements
Charlotte Moth
placements, 2020
50 x 39 x 12cm
The protagonists (1)
Charlotte Moth
The protagonists (1), 2010
43 x 55 x 3cm
The Protagonists (4)
Charlotte Moth
The Protagonists (4), 2010
43 x 55 x 3cm
Choreography of the Image : Inserts - Imagination (Substitute)
Charlotte Moth
Choreography of the Image : Inserts - Imagination (Substitute), 2015
130 x 203 x 27cm
Choreography of the Image : Inserts - Nature (Substitute)
Charlotte Moth
Choreography of the Image : Inserts - Nature (Substitute), 2015
130 x 203 x 27cm
Choreography of the Image : Inserts - Play (Substitute)
Charlotte Moth
Choreography of the Image : Inserts - Play (Substitute), 2015
130 x 203 x 27cm
Counter work eight, Le Confort Moderne
Charlotte Moth
Counter work eight, Le Confort Moderne, 2012
17 x 23.5cm
Counter work nine, Villeurbanne
Charlotte Moth
Counter work nine, Villeurbanne, 2015
17 x 23.5cm
Counter work seven, Dallas Biennale
Charlotte Moth
Counter work seven, Dallas Biennale, 2012
17 x 23.5cm
morning noon and evening #1
Charlotte Moth
morning noon and evening #1
27 x 39.5cm
morning noon and evening #2
Charlotte Moth
morning noon and evening #2, 2020
28.5 x 19cm
morning noon and evening #5
Charlotte Moth
morning noon and evening #5, 2020
15 x 22.5cm
Still life in a white cube, parrot
Charlotte Moth
Still life in a white cube, parrot, 2019
60 x 90cm
Lurking Sculpture (Rotating Rubber Plant)
Charlotte Moth
Lurking Sculpture (Rotating Rubber Plant), 2016
59 x 48 x 46cm
to see the things amongst which we live (6)
Charlotte Moth
to see the things amongst which we live (6), 2012
41 x 60cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Dallas Biennial2012 - Dallas
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