“Ad libitum” Opening Reception and Performance by Lucia Reategui

For Immediate Release

Performance and Art Exhibition

Lucia Reategui form Peru

Join us for:

“Ad libitum”

Opening Reception and Performance by Lucia Reategui

 Saturday,  October 1rst. 7.00 P.M.

Expressiones Cultural Center is very proud to share with our entired commnuity the Performance and Art Opning Reception of Lucia Reategui, visual and permorming artist from Peru. Reategui comes to Expressiones a selected artist-in-residence though the Latin American collaborative program between  I-Park & Expressiones Cultural Center.

LUCIA REATEGUI produces a performance/ installation piece that explores the obsession and perversion surrounding feminism. An encounter with a lover provokes an amorous duel, and the woman murders and swallows his masculinity with the objective of making him a part of her. In this banquet, death becomes a continuous life, transmuting the energy of her husband's body as a structural and vital power to her own feminine nature.

Personifying a woman in her 40's, the artist's performance is done in four specific times in which each transform into "Objetos de Deseo": Hide (Apron), Bones (dishes), meat (Banquet), hair (embroidery). These objects do not represent the lack of something, on the contrary, are manifest will, of doing, becoming "active affects" that produce reality. In this way and based on a need is the desire that generates the objects, being the productive power of life: The desire is revolutionary, challenging, active, aggressive, fertile, conqueror.

 This is free and open to the public.