Three times me, three times each 2021
Live performance. 9 sheets of white A1 paper.charcoal, graphite powder, paper clips, boots, 2 boiler suits.
Live performance. 9 sheets of white A1 paper.charcoal, graphite powder, paper clips, boots, 2 boiler suits.
Documentation of 3 Times me, 3 times each. Digital video footage of live performance 1080 x 720 pixels.
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Three times me, three times each is a drawing performance involving the movement of the artist's body within a specific space. It tackles issues related to agency, identity and interchangeability. To the role of the artist as a labourer in the current world of art industry, perhaps producing standardised works, through repetitive movements.
This piece can be performed live in from of an audience or documented and then displayed as the 9 papers, hung on the wall, together with video footage of the event.
9 pieces of A1 paper are organised on the floor of the exhibition space. on a matrix of 3 by 3. Wearing a boiler suit and using charcoal sticks and graphite dust as drawing materials, I trace my own body on the pieces of paper, performing a series of movements. The movements follow a sequence in which the head of the artist always is depicted on the top row of papers, his torso on the middle and his feet on the bottom one.
As well as using my own body, I also use some of the pieces of clothing that I am wearing as templates. I use both my hands and my feet to produce marks, in an effort to use my entire body to engage with the action that unfolds during the event.
Once the drawings have been executed, I hang them on the wall, rearranging them so that there is a part of each body on every column, mixing the times at which each depiction of the entire body was executed. This allows me to use time as material in my piece, both in the sense of the duration of the event and as a substance that can be manipulated.