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SOPHIA AL MARIA : ilysm

2 Mar-21 Apr 2018

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London E2 6GP

Overview

Chinese-American actress Bai Ling (The Crow, Sharknado 5: Global Swarming, Entourage, Wild Wild West) is the protagonist of the new suite of works that make up ilysm. Al-Maria sought to work with an actor who is a veteran and survivor of the misogyny industrial complex of Hollywood. Inspired by Bai’s apparent indifference to the racism, homophobia and sexism of the violent gaze she is subjected to in social and tabloid media, the works in ilysm invite Bai to explore the boundaries of the in-screen matrix she occupies. The presentation seeks to free her public persona (if not the actress herself) from the abjection projected onto her in the popular imagination of tabloids such as TMZ whose stock-in-trade is to troll.