LEMONISM X ACTIONISM 2015-16

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Akemi Takeya sets up a battle between “Actionism” and “Lemonism”; adapts, confronts and re-enacts the strategies of Actionism. Lemonism focuses on the body as material of “the I” including 71 items in a trial of finding a new perspective to present the body. In her examination of the radical Austrian art movement she exposes herself to a recurrent ritual: the flesh of the lemon becomes her own flesh, it becomes a metaphor of a transformation, in which she cuts into again and again.

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