A series of performance art works, each inspired by the curiously charged titles of paintings and photographs made by Pierre Bonnard, which became springboards into the disconcerting worlds I perform.
Scar; Nude with Mirror 1993-2021
Performance
Super-8mm colour/black and white film 8’27”
to HD video
silent

Atopia; Nude with Coverlet1994-2021
Performance
Super-8mm black and white film 3’56”
to HD video
stereo sound


Reichstag; Nude Against the Light1993
Performance
Super-8mm black and white film 3’31”
to HD video
silent
Transience; Nude in an Interior 1998-2025
Performance
16mm colour/black and white film
to HD video
stereo sound
Disembodied; Nude at the Window1994
Performance
super-8mm black and white film 1’03”
to HD video
silent
Intangible Distance; Nude Combing her Hair1994-2021
Performance
16mm black and white film
to HD video
silent
Nude Before A Mirror/Nude Against the LightA poetic prose text emerged while developing Trace. I published two corresponding books, loosely interweaving texts in a labyrinthine way: one in the performer’s first person; the other in the viewer’s third person. Matching pale blue paper was chosen to represent the central elements of water and melancholy, with transparent, embossed cover titles.

1994
Handmade unique pair of books
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