BLUE-BARBAR-BRAID
Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland, USA)
2018
The Witches You Did and Did Not Burnvideo, sound09:04 [min]2018
BLUE BARBAR BRAIDexhibition view2018
Blue-Barbar-Braid: Forms at Rest / Forms in Resistance
Blue-Barbar-Braid is a semi-fictional solo exhibition by Izidora l LETHE paying homage to resistant forms throughout the centuries. By mobilizing the ancient Roman use of blue (associated with loose women, barbarians, or effeminate men), LETHE quotes the semiotics of protest, queer artists’ work post-1970, and the Yugoslav women that shaped, then rejected, the Bauhaus movement. LETHE braids together these latent legacies and wakes them from oblivion.
Aggregate Space Gallery presents a formation of these collective unknown ancestors organized through collaborative gestures, formal urgencies, and a fluid monumentalization of the act of rebelling. Just as Lethe is the river of forgetting in ancient Greek mythology, Izidora Leber LETHE brings that river closer, so as to re-materialize disjointed moments in history. These forms, even at rest, are rooted in resistance.
ceramics2 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 3 1/2 [in]2018
porcelain, steel16 x 9 [in]2018:
FORM XX.1 and FORM XX.2 (Topographies)tracingscarbon on acid free paper
16 1/2 x 21 1/8 and 22 1/4 x 30 1/4 [in]
2018
~LETHErisography print68 pages2017
The Witches you Did and Did Not Burn (Performance Still)
video
09:04
2018
The Witches you Did and Did Not Burn (Performance Still)
video
09:04
2018
{FORM(UL)ATIONS (FORMS I-XIII)
(Still)
video
12:45
2018
{FORM(UL)ATIONS (FORMS I-XIII)
(Still)
video
12:45
2018
FORM XXII (Untitled, Felix) (Detail)
offset print
500 free posters
13 1/2 x 20 [in]
2018
FORM XXII (Untitled, Felix) (Detail)
offset print
500 free posters
13 1/2 x 20 [in]
2018
DESIRE IIceramics2018