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Exhibition: The Hybrid Guest - Rhine Bernardino & Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Location

Laure Genillard,

2 Hanway Place,
London,
W1T 1HB

Dates

This exhibition CLOSED on Wed, 4th Nov 2020

This exhibition has finished.

Cost: Free of Charge

Description

The exhibition questions perceptions of the female identity within the context of contemporary Western society by setting side by side the practices of Filipino-born artists Rhine Bernardino and Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen.

Originating from a visceral necessity to manifest their presence in space, an urgency to ‘be seen’ beyond their singularity – both practices exist within the realm of the displaced and the in-between. As immigrants residing respectively in Copenhagen (Cuenca Rasmussen) and London (Bernardino), they articulate the political through the body and its manifestations.

Endurance, repetition, struggle and participation is what connects both practices, primarily originating from a performative stance which develops into a multimedia body of works encompassing photography, sculpture, installation, video and sound.

The 18-year age gap reverberates throughout the work and opens up reflections on the progression of Performance Art as genre. Cuenca-Rasmussen’s artistic roots refer to the historical Performance Art of the ‘60s and ‘70s, grounded to an intimacy with earthly materials and their symbolic and historical references. She regularly uses tar, clay, sand, pig blood and buttermilk, but also procedures such as song writing and choreography - turning performances into uniquely staged masquerades. Cuenca-Rasmussen also challenges historicization through re-enactments of notable performances, reappropriating stereotypes with kitsch artifice and stagecraft. Through irony and sharp sarcasm, Cuenca Rasmussen provocatively challenges social conventions while mocking the rigorous academic art debate and its consumers’ logic.

A purity of form characterizes Bernardino’s work, reducing the experience to its most primitive and essential representation. Constantly working and seeking different ways of co-creating with indigenous communities and travelling to rural locations (Tasmania, Northern Territory, Australia, Southern Philippines, among others), the artist chooses everyday materials such as inflatable balloons and toilet paper, as well as bodily fluids including snot, menstrual blood and hair. The meticulous labour involved in the process of making often echoes the gravitas of her performances, as seen in The Earth Died Screaming While I Was Sewing (2016 -), an installation of toilet paper sheets sawn together with threads of hair.

Both interested in human behaviours and the condition of the self versus an other, the chimerical works of Bernardino and Cuenca Rasmussen are often uncannily interfering with notions of feminisation, ultimately seducing and repelling.


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Location

Laure Genillard,

2 Hanway Place,
London,
W1T 1HB

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