Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Bianca Censori, designer and wife of Kanye West, made some furniture. The collection of tables and chairs is part of Bio Pop, a performance-art piece that just debuted in Seoul. The pieces represent “a self-portrait in constraint,” which is made very literal by the staging: Censori and a group of models made to look like her are wearing latex bodysuits designed by Shigenari Kido and positioned inside each piece in restrictive postures. The furniture appears to be made of crutches (or is heavily inspired by crutches?). “Positions learned in private are worn in public,” Censori writes of the series. Okay? She continues, “Domesticity is the mother of all revolutions, because all others trace back to it.” Okay.
Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Photo: Courtesy Noah Dillon
Her artist statement continues, “The domestic, turned uncanny, becomes the womb of the system — the site where intimacy, confinement, and identity are first inscribed.”
The 13-minute performance is mostly of Censori baking a cake until a curtain is pulled back to reveal the medical sex-dungeon furniture. Want more? Bio Pop is just one of seven Censori performances scheduled over the next seven years. Mark your calendars.