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NEWS:
Upcoming Photographic Performance
In Fieri, Work in Progress, June 18-21, 2-8 PM, The Blanc 15 E 40th St, New York City
Vessels of Verisimilitude II, performance still, digital C print, Governors Island Art Fair, 2017
In Fieri is a photographic performance and site-responsive installation by Ventiko built on the idea that the process of becoming is never finished and perfection is an illusion. Throughout Works In Progress, Ventiko will photograph herself and a rotating cast of friends and previous collaborators in staged tableaux vivants reminiscent of Renaissance portraiture and still life painting. Collapsing the distinction between observer and observed, the artist will invite attendees to enter the frame and join the performance. The spectator is no longer positioned before the image but enfolded within it.
Vessels of Verisimilitude I, performance still, digital C print, Governors Island Art Fair, 2017
The only finished forms in the work are silicone masks cast from the artist's own face and silicone suits of grotesque, hyperbolized female proportions, perfection built and exposed as a farce. Against them, everything and everyone else stays in fieri, always in a state of becoming. In Fieri extends Ventiko's treatment of the self as rehearsal rather than a fixed state of being, a heavily curated fiction that continuously revises and adapts to historical scripts and social expectations. To step into the frame is to be counted among the becoming rather than the complete. We are unfinished as individuals and as a society, caught together in division and, simultaneously, in the possibility of repair.
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