Inge Grognard, Eyes

This publication accompanies Eyes, an exhibition presented in public space, featuring seven billboards across the city of Graz, each displaying compositions of eye makeup by Inge Grognard, photographed by Grognard herself backstage during the preparation of runway preparations and fashion shoots. Much like the large-scale billboards, the images in Eyes focus exclusively on the eye, highlighting it as an isolated subject, emphasizing it as a site of composition, color, and texture, while retaining its capacity to convey emotion and depth. Makeup has a long history as both adornment and self-expression, embedded in daily rituals yet constantly evolving as a form of creative and cultural practice. By isolating the eye, Eyes highlights this tension between routine and abstraction; displaced from their original context, the images draw attention to makeup as an independent visual language rather than a supporting element within a larger aesthetic context. Grognard is known for her raw, unconventional approach to makeup, often exploring distortion, asymmetry, and non-traditional materials. Eyes highlights these motifs by transferring them within the wider urban environment, inviting passersby to engage with makeup not as mere embellishment, but as a potent act of composition – one that reclaims it as a site of agency and unruliness. [publisher’s note]

The publication is the tenth in a series of compact volumes that accompany the exhibition program at Grazer Kunstverein.


Editor: Tom Engels, Julie Peeters
Design: Julie Peeters
Publisher: Grazer Kunstverein
ISBN 9783950580013
64 pages 
2025

Stock: ✔
18 Eur