I Object: Memoirs of a Sugargiver
2016
Wearing a half-mask made out of my image as Marilyn Monroe, while the same picture was projected behind me, I read Marilyn Monroe’s six-page letter to her psychiatrist, which she wrote when she was admitted to Payne Whitney, a mental hospital in New York, in 1961. The performance fused “the cinematic face as object” with (subjective) meanings/reflections on life from the most objectified women in the 20th. century performed by a man.
I Object: Memoirs of a Sugargiver was a bodily subversion of one of Roland Barthes texts from his book “Mythologies” (1957), and performed at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, 2016 – an event organized by C-E-A.