Aklumda (part.1)
video, screenshot of 4 pictures, 2014.
Aklumda (part.1)
Performance and mixed media installation
Exhibition at the Espace M - Rennes
8 - 25 april 2014
This exhibition join the work of Natasha Lesueur and Marcy Petit around the question of the body's individuality and representation within our society.
Famous for her staged pictures, Natasha Lesueur shows us two portraits, both classic and disturbing. We can see two old woman, teeth coated with varnish, bursting out laughing. Both funny and scary, these smiles are torn between spontaneity and tension.
In parallel to these pictures, we can see a video performance wherein Marcy Petit puts make up on her face until she reaches extreme saturation. The accumulation of make up leading to the progressive degradation of her face speaks to the submission of the individual to the dictats of appearance. This work criticises both the woman entrapped by the cosmetics industry and people who hide behind homogenous social masks.
Through the photos and performance, both artists critically examine notions of bodily beauty, seduction, attractiveness, repulsion, fear, and ugliness.