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Opening Reception: Alex Mari: Our heads stuffed with lies, Her Belly Full of Ice
Sat, Sep 30
|KODA/RU House on Governors Island
Our heads stuffed with lies, Her Belly Full of Ice is Alex Mari’s first survey exhibition spanning the past decade highlighting conceptual performances documented solely for photo, video, text or sound (non-live).
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2023, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT
KODA/RU House on Governors Island, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA
About the Event
Alex Mari: Our heads stuffed with lies, Her Belly Full of Ice
Location: (map) KODA House, Building #404B, Colonels Row, Governors Island, New York On view: September 30-October 29, 2023
Opening on Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 11am-5pm
Opening Hours: Fridays-Sundays at 11am-5pm
Our heads stuffed with lies, Her Belly Full of Ice is Alex Mari’s first survey exhibition spanning the past decade highlighting conceptual performances documented solely for photo, video, text or sound (non-live). A trickster, her brown body in a sequined gold prom dress pulled up to her hips, her genitalia partially covered by a hemp loin cloth, hands and face painted white, and a belly full of ice ... disorients us by disorienting herself.
The title piece Her Belly Full of Ice is appropriated from George Orwell’s novel 1984. The full quote reads: “He had imagined her a fool like all the rest of them, her head stuffed…