PLEASE DON’T USE ME, I’M AN ARTIST
Ciriaca+Erre 2009,2’22’ Performance- Video
For centuries, the role of women in art has been that of inspiring muse. With this performance the artist reappropriates her
body and her role as artist. During the performance Ciriaca+Erre uses herself to create a cast on which she writes with a red marker:
Please don’t use me, I’m an an artist.
A dichotomous work, it is a reflection on the use that the artist makes of herself in a very intimate and pure action, as opposed to the use of the artist by the art system.
A dialogue between the identity of the work, the artist uses herself, shares herself, exposes herself, but asks, most intimately, not to be used. A reflection on the art system’s cracking for art that in the end asks the artist to show off a healthy ego and a capacity to sell herself at the expense of the purity of soul and the intimacy of uneasy artistic research.
Ciriaca+Erre 2009,2’22’ Performance- Video
For centuries, the role of women in art has been that of inspiring muse. With this performance the artist reappropriates her
body and her role as artist. During the performance Ciriaca+Erre uses herself to create a cast on which she writes with a red marker:
Please don’t use me, I’m an an artist.
A dichotomous work, it is a reflection on the use that the artist makes of herself in a very intimate and pure action, as opposed to the use of the artist by the art system.
A dialogue between the identity of the work, the artist uses herself, shares herself, exposes herself, but asks, most intimately, not to be used. A reflection on the art system’s cracking for art that in the end asks the artist to show off a healthy ego and a capacity to sell herself at the expense of the purity of soul and the intimacy of uneasy artistic research.
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