78 inch to 78 inch, acrylic on polyester, 2023
Performance
Life imitating stereotypes, imitating Sense
Artistic Field Constituted from Stereotypes
The works exhibited in Cambridge are created in response to a film experience. They refer to the British cult film Performance (1968). In the fall of 2022, the film was shown at a festival in Hamburg, and the program included various feminist films. Many of the guests were feminists. We were confronted with formerly-familiar, very violent cis-male read patterns, male fantasies, but then followed by queer and beautiful, sensual scenes. Many of us were unsettled. Incendiary images, beat images - sensations.
The abstract narratives in the paintings are constituted by stereotypes and at the same time blur the too unbearable patterns that transport the past int the present. The ambivalent impressions are combined in the artistic settings as a “painterly performance”.
Life imitating stereotypes, imitating Sense
Artistic Field Constituted from Stereotypes
The works exhibited in Cambridge are created in response to a film experience. They refer to the British cult film Performance (1968). In the fall of 2022, the film was shown at a festival in Hamburg, and the program included various feminist films. Many of the guests were feminists. We were confronted with formerly-familiar, very violent cis-male read patterns, male fantasies, but then followed by queer and beautiful, sensual scenes. Many of us were unsettled. Incendiary images, beat images - sensations.
The abstract narratives in the paintings are constituted by stereotypes and at the same time blur the too unbearable patterns that transport the past int the present. The ambivalent impressions are combined in the artistic settings as a “painterly performance”.
