The gallery Laurent Godin is pleased to present "Sweat", an exhibition project born of a close collaboration between Marilyn Minter and Mika Rottenberg.

"We thought since it's a summer show (even though it opens in May) Sweat a perfect title! I sweat all the time when I am working and I always sweat the results. Most of my subject matter looks better to me when it is wet. Preferably, dripping wet, S- L- O –W- L-Y D- R- I –P- I- N- G W E T. It's awkward, uncomfortable, and uncontrollable. I shoot this. I paint this." Marilyn Minter

"In my work sweat functions as the body's juice, its essence. Sweat is shiny and alive: it's wet evidence of an internal process; it's the body not able to contain itself -- spilling out, melting away. Sweat marks time passing by. Sweat is heat and a boiling point. Sweat is effort: it's the body at work. Sweat is nervous. Sweat is surplus, sweat stinks." Mika Rottenberg

Mika Rottenberg was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires. She lives and works in New York. She received the Cartier Award in 2006. Her exhibitions include the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; "The Irresistible Force", Tate Modern, London; "The Shapes of Space", Guggenheim Museum, New York; "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium" (multiple venues); and "Greater New York 2005", PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. She has participated in the Moscow Biennial, the Herzliya Biennial, and the Busan Biennial. Her work is on show in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.

Born in 1948, at Shreveport( Louisiana), Marilyn Minter lives and works in New York. She has recently exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (solo show – 2005) - Whitney Biennial, New York, NY (2006) - Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France (2007) - RocknRoll, Norrköpings Museum, Norrköpings, Sweden (2007) - Sex in the City, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2007). Her work is on show in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Museum of Modern Art, New York – Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York - Collection Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France – Neuberger Berman, New York.