Rachel Monosov
Pink Village, 2015-2016

Pink Village, 2016 Single Channel, HDV. Stereo sound, 25:21 min.

As a gift to one nearby village, Monosov offered to paint a mud hut pink. The village accepted. What happens when you give a gift, which one artist desires to see manifested for formalistic reasons? The creative pursuit of bringing friction to the natural landscape ignites a dialogue regarding the aesthetic, political and cultural relationships between Africa and the West.

Land For Sale, 2015, performance with 265 specimen packets containing Zimbabwean earth

As a performance Rachel Monosov and Admire Kamudzengerere sit behind a table inside a kiosk donning large lettering announcing “LAND FOR SALE.” The two artists are packaging earth which visitors can buy in small specimen bags reading: “100% pure Pink Village earth.” The artists invite visitors to learn about Pink Village, a place 25km outside of Harare, Zimbabwe whose mud huts were painted pink by a Western artist in 2015. Each packet is sold for Euro 40.

EXHIBITIONS
2016 Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York
2016 National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Curators: Catinca Tabacaru and Raphael Chikukwa
2016 Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montréal, Canada; Curator: Nicolas Mavrikakis
2017 dokumentArt, Neubrandenburg, Germany