A powerful image documenting a disruptive performance. Xiao Lu pours a bucket of black paint over herself as an act of individual rebellion against systemic oppression. The female body becomes a political medium, in a fusion of intimacy and dissent.
- Xiao Lu
- 2015
- Photography
- Digital photographic print (documented performance)
- Madeinartgallery
The performer, standing on a sheet covered in paint, pours a bucket of black paint over herself. The black flows over her body and spreads onto the floor in a stain that evokes contamination, pain, and dissent.
Performance Art / Post-Body Politics
Performance presented at the Shanghai Biennale 2016
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