Framer Framed

23 Jun –
26 Jul 2015

'Venus' maskers, parallel aan de expositie Embodied Spaces

On Tuesday June 23rd 2015 Framer Framed hosted the amazing performance event VENUS – The anti-hero Hero, on the history of black bodies and representation in art. Our exhibition space was alive with discussion, music, performances and… art by Shertise Solano and Ronald De Graaff.

The titel of the performance refers to the objectification and forced public display of  Sarah Baartman (c.1789– 29 December 1815), a Khoikhoi woman who was exhibited as a ‘freak show’ attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name which was later attributed to at least one other woman similarly exhibited. The women were exhibited for their steatopygic body type uncommon in Western Europe which not only was perceived as a curiosity at that time, but became subject of scientific interest as well as of erotic projection.

Shertise Solano and Ronald De Graaff created a series of beautiful masks especially for the Venus performance directed by Milone Reigman. The event was part of the exciting programme Perspectives, a series of public events curated by Amal Alhaag in the context of the exhibition Embodied Spaces (2015). We really liked the masks and thought it was an amazing addition to the exhibition. Therefore, Shertise Solano’s masks are on display in the Tolhuistuin hallway downstairs, from Friday 3rd July! Feel free to come view them during the runtime of the exhibition Embodied Spaces, until July 26th, 2015. For more one  Shertise Solano and Ronald De Graaff, please refer to the links below.

Shertise Solano en Ronald de Graaff, Venus Maskers (2015), mixed-media, acryl en collage op prespane

Exposities

18 Jun – 26 Jul 2015

Expositie: Embodied Spaces

Een expositie samengesteld door Christine Eyene rondom de thema's lichaam, gender en identiteit.

Agenda

Netwerk

Shertise Solano

Kunstenaar

Milone Reigman

Regisseur, actrice

Amal Alhaag

Curator