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| FRONT > ADRIENNE HECKER |
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| SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
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| Animal Women |
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Playing with what's revealed and concealed, I am interested in a viewers reaction to a body that's simultaneously attractive and monstrous.
I have been propagating an art movement called the Visceral Movement, characterized by gut reaction.
As an Animal Woman, I can exist in the real world as a women, and in the other as beast or bug.
Scary pin-ups, Leda wearing her swan, and having wings are peculiar, fascinating and provocative modes of exploring personal transformation. |
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| Metamorphosis |
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The films: “Caterpillar Woman’s Birthday,” “Hypnotized,” and “Butterfly Women,” chronicle my performance of a metamorphosis wearing, wrapping, bathing in, getting inside, and emerging f... |
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A Tango Movie.
Butterfly Woman and Man mate.
She lays eggs. |
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Adrienne Hecker |
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Revealing human skin and characteristics beneath costumes provokes empathy, familiarity, and a sense of the uncanny. The characters I and others embody in my work have comedic/tragic longing and a simultaneous fascination with beauty and repulsiveness.
By donning new skins I alter conventions of how we perceive the body and its functions. While depicting an animal/woman hybrid who undergoes a transformation, I seek to dispel illusions held about how a body looks and acts.
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