Bianca Censori has donned a crimson latex bodysuit and posed with human furniture in an outlandish performance art show in South Korea on December 11.
A 14-minute video on Censori’s website debuts her “self-portrait” project, BIO POP (THE ORIGIN), which begins with the Melbourne-born architectural designer slowly and performatively baking a cake in a futuristic-style kitchen, set to the sound of eerie orchestral music.
The cake represents “not nourishment but offering”, according tothe vague description on Censori’s website, and “embodies the tension of the kitchen as origin, labor, and ritual”.
“A gesture of domestic service framed as spectacle,” the website reads.
Censori, who is married to controversial US rapper Kanye West, then brought the cake into a new set styled to look like a living room to the tune of soulful jazz music.
All of the furniture in the living room, which was designed to look like “padded medical crutches”, was entwined with dystopian mannequins including a table, chairs, and even a light furniture.
The mannequins appeared to mirror Censori’s distinctive look for the evening, from the skin-tight latex down to her pin-straight, glossy black hair draped over their shoulders.
“Each [furniture] piece is not passive support but an apparatus that moulds the body, turning comfort into confinement and domesticity into architecture,” Censori’s website reads.
West was sat in the front row of the exhibition, and was pictured with Censori in a later Instagram post with a bunch of crimson flowers.
It appears BIO POP is the first in a seven-year performance plan for Censori, who has listed a series on her website scheduling new shows including the uniquely-named “BIANCA IS MY DOLL BABY”, “GENESIS”, and “BUBBLE”.
The performance comes as Censori launched a futuristic bracelet collection, modelled on medical equipment including a speculum, costing $2500, and a scalpel, valued at $2100.
It appears a second performance of BIO POP is scheduled for the evening of December 12.
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