cpress

×

Liv Fontaine
A Gloomy Masturbation

Featuring a selection of drawings from Fontaine’s ongoing project 'A Gloomy Masturbation' this book takes the reader on a trip through the artist's mind. The work functions as part diary, part fantasy, and part information, chronicling her own chronic sickness, fixating on her many failed romantic relationships, and exploring therapeutic theories of the mind and the precarious political situations of our time. Expect tragic comedy, slippery statements, radical honesty, and total teenage angst.

20 CHF
+ 2 CH
+ 5 EU
+ 7 WORLD

Liv Fontaine; A Gloomy Masturbation; 48pp.; 218x302mm; Offset print; Graphic Design by Studio Nüssli+Nuessli; Published by cpress, Zurich; Distributed by Idea Books, Amsterdam (World and cpress, Zurich (Switzerland); ISBN 978-3-9524710-7-4; First Edition: 300 copies; CC-BY-NC-SA, 2021

Press Kit Video

BIO

Liv Fontaine

Liv FONTAINE (b.1989 Southampton) is a multi disciplinary artist working across mediums that include drawing, performance, writing and video. In 2021 she was included in the group exhibition Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down curated by Cabbage Arts and showed a new video work produced by Civic Room as part of Glasgow International Art Festival. A solo show of her drawings curated by Roisin Mcqueirns was presented on the Richard Saltoun website as part of their woman 2.1 Online programme and she was the recipient of a Resilience Grant from Cabbage Arts. She has exhibited and performed in numerous group shows and solo presentations over the last 10 years in venues such as galleries, artist led spaces and bars. This has included at Elephant West, London; David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; Celine, Glasgow; SuperNormal Festival, Oxfordshire; Raven Row, London; CCA, Glasgow; Matthew Gallery, New York; BLOC Projects Sheffield; ICA, London; Caustic Coastal, Salford; HAHA Gallery, Southampton; Austrian Cultural Forum, London; Serf, Leeds and Academy of Art, Vienna.

More works by this artist