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Questionary from Laurence Verdier for Monika Brugger

If only one word in the French language remained, what would it be?
Memory

Who is your personal saint?
Barbara

What does your mother think of your work?
She is probably unaware of everything I do, even though she was the person who helped it all happen…

Your favourite occupation?
Work.

And what’s your biggest ordeal?
Jewellery.

What bugs you?
My insect pins called ‘éphèmerdes’.

What forest would you like to get lost in?
The Black Forest.

What is your best dress for going dancing?
The one by Yamamoto.

When did you leave your childhood behind?
I’ve certainly left it behind, but I couldn’t tell you exactly where the border lies between childhood and adulthood.

On which occasions have you worn your black dresses?
Back in 2011, every day, to see if they worked.

What national holiday would you like to invent?
I have a problem with the concept ‘national’.

What would you do if you could only keep one finger?
The middle one, to bring any arguments to a swift conclusion.

If you were reborn as an insect?
Flies are too horrible to think about and yet they are a real pain and really boring …  that might work well with my character.

What beverage would you like to dip your ‘Lécher les doigts’ spoon in?
A yoghurt ice cream.

What alliance is most important to you?
Friendship.

What would you like people to give you as a birthday present.
Just being there. Because that’s the most difficult thing of all on 25th December!

What work would you like to have created?
‘Brosche Brosche Brosche’ by Manfred Niesmüller.

What Robert dictionary would you like to see at your exhibition?
The only one: the one by Alain Rey.

What is the most difficult kind of exile?
To be apart from ourselves, with the most physical self, nothing to do with a place.

What jewellery would you like to receive as a present?
I don’t need jewellery. A ‘Robert’ geranium, perhaps, but no jewellery.

Heimat ou les ritournelles de Monika Brugger

Monika Brugger makes honey from these images by transforming them into jewellery and installations. To wander among the works of Monika is to seize these images – the cherries on the ears of a child, a bead of blood, flies in a summer garden – images which resonate in us so strongly they could be our own. A mischievous novelist who tickles the French language, playing with words, their meanings, their permeability with reality and the images they call to mind.

Laurence Verdier, 2017

Monika Brugger mentors Macarena Bernal

Mouche, 2018, Marlène et ses mouches, 2017, Copper, enamel, Portrait. Photo : Matthieu Gauchet, Paris 

Fingerprints from M.B., A fleurs des doigts, since 2008, Rings, Silver, gold. Photo : Corinne Janier Paris 

Fingerhut, since 1992, Weddingring, 2008, Rings, Silver, gold. Photo : Corinne Janier Parisorinne Janier Paris 

Stichwunde, Geschenk der Näherin (detail), 2007, Linen, grenats, Jeu de dés, 2018

Earrings, Recovered thimbles, silver, red gold, grenats. Photo : Corinne Janier Paris 

Stichwunde, Geschenk der Näherin, 2007, 2/7, Jewel, Linen, garnets, cotton. Collection.

1/7 ProArtibus, Ekenäs (FI), Work produced with the assistance of a 2005 research grant awarded by the CNAP (National Centre for Visual Arts), Paris and  the A.i.R programme of ProArtibus Ekenäs/Tammisaari (FI) in 2006. Photo : Matthieu Gauchet, Paris 

Frauenbilder, 2013-2016, 3 photographs under frame, Inkjet printing, Inséparable 36,5 x 59,5 cm I Gothic attribut-s 39,5 x 59,5 cm I Most excellent #1 36,5 x 59,5 cm, Measures with frame. Photo : Matthieu Gauchet, Paris 

Frauenbilder, 2013-2016, Inseparable, 2002 I Linen, cotton thread I Gothic attribut-s I Brooches I Silver, rhodium-plated black, gold, textile, steel I Most excellent #1 I Brooch and dress I Linen, cotton, silver partially gilded, steel. Photo : Matthieu Gauchet, Paris