JILL MAGID
Out-Game-Flowers
Born in 1973 in Bridgeport, USA, Jill Magid lives and works in New York. As an artist and writer, she strives to dissipate the boundaries between art and everyday life. In her often interconnected work, Magid also makes reference to structures of authority, particularly institutions. She reveals the emotional, philosophical and legal tensions that characterize relations between individuals and so-called "patronage" establishments. Critical, she inserts herself into systems of control to become a protagonist. To this end, Magid seeks out systemic loopholes that enable her to make contact with people "on the inside".
Magid has had numerous monographic exhibitions, including at The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Dia Bridgehampton; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; San Francisco Art Institute; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Berkeley Museum of Art, California. Her Out-Game-Flowers series has just been added to the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris).
“ I imagined myself as the naughty girl knocking down the walled gardens of the online gaming landscape to go flower-picking within them."
JILL MAGID
