DONNA HUANCA : SCAR CYMBALS

29 Sep-18 Dec 2016

Overview

Major annual commission featuring daily performances from painted models activating new site-responsive architectural and sculptural installations. Huanca’s work draws attention to the body and in particular the skin, which is simultaneously the surface on which our personhood is inscribed and the surface through which we experience the world around us. Huanca examines conventions of behaviour in our interaction with bodies in space and the invisible histories that are accumulated through those gestures. By exposing the naked female body and concealing it under layers of paint, cosmetics and latex, Huanca’s performers confront our instinctive reactions to flesh.