ANALIX FOREVER

Founded in 1991 in Geneva by Barbara Polla, ANALIX FOREVER is an outstanding gallery, deploying its projects within its walls as well as abroad, privileging collaborations and co-collaborations with numerous actors of the art world. The discovery and valorization of the young creation is a key driver, as well as the promotion of three mediums of predilection: video, drawing and poetry –especially when they are rooted in political issues and the innermost depths of the soul. With the ambition to promote the young creation, the gallery's first exhibitions revealed emerging artist to the general public, now world-wide-famous, such as Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin and Maurizio Cattelan, as well as Vanessa Beecroft and Martin Creed.

Analix Forever (New York)
Barbara Polla, director
Rue du Gothard 10, Chêne-Bourg, Geneva, 1225, Switzerland
www.analixforever.com
@galerieanalixforever

Janet Biggs is known primarily for her work in video, photography and performance. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Biggs' work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations and often navigates territory between art and science. She has captured such events as kayaks performing a synchronized ballet in Arctic waters and sulfur miners inside an active volcano. Recent projects have explored the creation and loss of memory from personal, physical, and scientific perspectives. Biggs’ work has taken her into areas of conflict in the Horn of Africa and to Mars (as a member of crew 181 at the Mars Desert Research Station). She has collaborated with neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists, Yemeni refugees, and a robot. In addition to videos, her recent work includes multi-discipline performances, often including multiple large-scale videos, live musicians, and athletes.

Biggs has had solo exhibitions and film screenings at the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre and the Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife; Neuberger Museum of Art; SCAD Museum of Art; Blaffer Art Museum; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Tampa Museum of Art; Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; and the Mint Museum of Art, among others.

Her work has been featured in the First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena, Colombia; the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, France; Vantaa Art Museum, Finland; Linkopings Konsthall, Passagen, Sweden; the Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Austria; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Museo d'arte contemporanea Roma, Italy; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, and the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo in Montevideo, among others.

Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts Award, the Arctic Circle Fellowship/Residency, Art Matters, Inc., the Wexner Center Media Arts Program Residency, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award.

Her work is in collections including La Collezione Videoinsight ®, Turin, Italy; Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), Languedoc-Roussillon, France; Zabludowicz Collection, London, England; the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL: the High Museum, Atlanta, GA; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; and Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, NC.; and the New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut.

Robert Montgomery is a Scottish-born, London-based poet, artist and sculptor known for his site-specific installations created from light and text, as well as his 'fire poems'. Montgomery works in a “melancholic post- situatonist” tradition, primarily in public spaces. He is regarded as a leading figure in the conceptual art world.

Robert Montgomery brings a poetic voice and public interventionists strategies to the tradition of contemporary text art, and works across diverse media: billboard pieces, solar powered light pieces, fire poems, woodcuts and watercolors. He was the British artist selected for the 2012 Kochi Biennale and the 2016 Yinchuan Biennale. A monograph on his work was published by Distanz in 2015. Along with the architects Allied Works he was a shortlisted finalist for the UK National Holocaust Memorial in 2017 with the scheme exhibited at the V&A Museum in London.

Phaidon: The Don Draper with soul: “Slick copy that sings like poetry, emblazoned on the sides of buildings, the wallpaper of everyday life – but this time not cynical, corporate advertising lingo, instead, a humane anti-capitalist message from British artist Robert Montgomery”

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The Quietus: Concrete Poetry: Robert Montgomery's Hammersmith Poem (2017): “I began working in the streets. And I’m really interested in hijacking at that scale and bringing a different kind of speech to public spaces. In the beginning, I was just going out in Shoreditch [where he lived at the time] and put posters over adverts. I think it’s generally therapeutic to find a poem in place of an advert on the street”

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Niall Flynn writes about Robert Montgomery ouvre on Dazed (2017): “Back in March, Robert Montgomery unveiled Hammersmith Poem, an extraordinary, public-facing installation set across the iconic brutalism of Hammersmith Town Hall. Clocking in at six metres tall, it was both a sprawling ode and impassioned rallying cry, dedicated to a school of civic values he felt that the world had stopped believing in: Modernism”

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