Allegory of the Painted Woman - Alexis Blake
23 Mar 2019 - 23 Mar 2019
What began for Alexis Blake as a research project on the representation of women in Italian art soon evolved into a choreography and into a performance. Accompanied by four musicians in the Horta Hall at BOZAR, she makes an archive of poses abstract, stripping them of their history and context.
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Palais des Beaux-Arts - BOZAR - 23 Rue Ravenstein 1000
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Mother, Madonna, seductress, prostitute, martyr, saint, goddess… Throughout art history, women have often been assigned archetypal roles. What began for Alexis Blake as a research project on the representation of women in Italian art soon evolved into a choreography and into a performance. Accompanied by four musicians in the Horta Hall at BOZAR, she makes an archive of poses abstract, stripping them of their history and context. She thus questions notions such as gender, representation, reproduction and seriality.
Alexis Blake has a multidisciplinary practice that coalesces visual art and performance through methods of translation such as choreography, sculpture, video, and/or text. In 2007, she received an MA in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her work has been presented at numerous locations, such as the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), ExtraCity (Antwerp), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como) and La Triennale di Milano XXI.
Alexis Blake has a multidisciplinary practice that coalesces visual art and performance through methods of translation such as choreography, sculpture, video, and/or text. In 2007, she received an MA in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her work has been presented at numerous locations, such as the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), ExtraCity (Antwerp), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como) and La Triennale di Milano XXI.
Palais des Beaux-Arts - BOZAR
23 Rue Ravenstein 1000
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