EPHEMERES MONUMENT 2024
Performance
Waste materials, dressmaker's mannequin,
Scissors, coloured markers
Duration: 45 Min.
Künstlerhaus S11, Solothurn
26. 04. 2024
Ephemeral Monument is a performance that critically examines consumerism and the ephemerality of desire through the symbolic figure of the wedding dress. Constructed from recycled waste materials collected from clothing stores, the gown is simultaneously opulent and precarious, a monument to fleeting dreams.
During the performance, the audience participates in its ritualized destruction, cutting out heart-shaped fragments later sold to support the “Clean Clothes Campaign.” Through this participatory gesture, Jacomella Bonola transforms spectators into collaborators, implicating them in cycles of production, consumption, and restitution.
The performance questions the societal obsession with perfection and fulfilment, suggesting that renunciation may itself be a form of liberation. In its paradoxical grandeur and decay, Ephemeral Monument becomes a metaphor for excess, fragility, and the necessity of collective change.
Credits: © Video Stills
© Video: James Dudley