ELEVEN FACES OF FRIDA KAHLO
Art Group Exhibition
12 Artists
Coordinator: Gemma Garcia
LIVE ART PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
Sharmila
Nezovic and Gemma Garcia
22nd July 2016
Frida Kahlo stands for many things – a sensual artist,
from a deeply religious society, a person with great passion herself who
managed to evoke poetic expression through paint, and one who especially lived
and worked in the world of polarities. She was a Mexican artist known for her
unflinching self-portraits.
In this Performance
Art event, two contemporary female artists explore some of these as
externalised imaginings – such as, the expressive urge, the perfume of life
(‘sweetness & stench’), the coloured ‘ground’ versus the blank canvas - encompassing
the undercurrents that made up Frida’s
life….
Here then, the gallery is overrun by an endless red
ribbon walk, temporarily scattered with small paint pots. On Opening night,
Gallery goers, are interrupted in their mingling & viewing, and invited to
freeze where they are, no matter which side of the central wall they remain…
A brief performance (approx. 10 mins long) manifests
quickly, along the red ribbon ‘catwalk’ journey,
& where the audience’s experience will need to flip alternately between
seeing and hearing, between noticing & feeling.
Sharmila & Gemma’s premise will explore layers of
meaning around ‘the artist as transformer, as well as provocateur’.
This post-performance Installation invites contemplation of the concept of presence –
yours the viewer’s attendance and attention, as well as that of the
artist-producers.
It may bring up questions such as, what actions must
the artists have undergone to produce this installation? What might be the layers
of meaning that relate to Frida/ to all the artists in this exhibition/ to
myself as visitor? Might this detritus from the performance evoke not only
Frida the artist –but a suggestive vacancy as well? What aspects of Fida’s
story moves us personally - yet do we not also possibly bring our own experiences
and meanings into the mix from our own lives, as well?
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