FROM VENUSLIVE

At the 2024 Rundgang exhibition, Venus escaped the pose of the sculpture in FROM VENUS — LIVE. She stopped being one specific figure and became a series of roles that appeared, disappeared, and replaced one another.

I built a green structure with wheels. Costumes and props hung directly on it. Performers moved around it, changed clothes, picked up props, and kept entering and leaving different roles. A monkey, a chicken, a crying flower, a noblewoman, and a coral monster appeared one after another. They don't form one continuous story. They are more like parts of a suite, connected but fairly independent.

I see performance as a state outside everyday life. There was no fixed script. What I care about is response: how performers respond to the space, the audience, each other's movements, the works around them, and whatever happens by chance in the moment. Performers keep changing the work through their own decisions. Improvisation, mistakes, and loss of control became part of the performance. In this sense, it is a co-created work.

The green structure was a sculpture, a stage, and a storage space for costumes and props. Performers could push it and keep changing its position in the exhibition space. The relationships in the room formed anew each time.

But all of this is temporary.