Portrait
- 2021, Bern
Portrait is a 15-minute manifesto.
So, this painted figure, she wakes up for the first time. With a blank history, identity, and a curious mind, she casually wanders through the exploration of possibilities on “what she is? what can she be? how can she be?”. There is some act, imaging, pretending, make-believe, truly-believe, infaturation, pictorial actions, and embodiment.
This project researches into pictorial poses and the female bodies in the western histories of portraits. One if the major intentions for portrait paintings is as representation/ documentation/ interpretation of a person. The person that is being portraited is the one with history, their own identities; and they’re often the ones that are being introduced with the paintings. This work takes the angle of the painted figure as the subjective eye, the figure that was made to represent the other, the figure in the painting.
Concept/ Director/ Choreographer/ Performer: Kuan-Hsuan Lee
Sounds: white noises found on Youtube
Mentor: Lukas Bangerter, Regine Schaub-Fritschi