Living Sculpture Performance, 2017, 1 hour, Gallery Elena Shchukina, Mayfair London

This Living Sculpture performance was performed in a white cube style gallery in Mayfair London. The work stood out against the painters who were also exhibiting their own work for PROJECT2017. The performance worked in stages first symbolising the ‘collapse’ of traditional and political sculptures, which created the sense of discomfort and interest for the viewers as ultimately the human condition has us intrigued with pain. The next position was a sitting/throne-like position on the plinth to create the sense of myself (the performer) as high art and sense of grandeur. The last position was to demonstrate the ‘statues’ (living sculpture’s) original position before the collapse which also demonstrates the link to greek sculptures and there heroic poses.

This was greatly received by the audience with lots of feed back of the chosen positioning of my body and them having the sensation of it being uncomfortable to watch but also full of interest.

I plan to develop this performance further to tap more into the humour element of the performance and play more with the idea of gender and manipulation of it.