This young Italian artist achieved recognition in 1995 with her drastic video installation Wallfucking – a crushing confrontation with sexuality, power and architecture. Again and again she has succeeded in destabilising – quite literally – the public by means of aggressive interventions in rooms. In the Vienna Secession Bonvicini had the entire floor covered in plasterboard that was so soft, that whoever ventured on to it inevitably broke through. In a Berlin Gallery, two high-powered fans mounted on the ceiling produced hurricane-force wind created a commotion.

The sterile character of the room is clear from the sketch-like collages for the Berlin action, and it is left to the technical apparatus alone to have an effect.  In the end, the hurricane was a gesture and it destabilised only hairdos. An art space as an adventure playground (“Enjoy!”)? There are also variable resonances of cynical advertising slogans: (“Support the products of proletarian sweat!”).

Wolfgang Kos, 2005 (translation: Tim Sharp)