Starkwhite is delighted to present The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations by Berlin-based artist Alicia Frankovich, from 6 February to 5 March 2016. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. She will be present at the opening preview on Friday 5 February from 5.30 – 8pm.
Alicia Frankovich has
exhibited widely in New Zealand and Internationally. She works at the
intersection of performance and sculpture, where she builds successions of
varying images, embodiments and movements.
She is well-known
for her live performances and sculptural and video presentations, such as the
memorable Floor Resistance in the 2012
Walters Prize exhibition; Free Time/The
Opportune Spectator in the Anne Landa Award exhibition at the Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney in 2013; Free
Time at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2013; her major sculptural, video and
performance work Defending Plural
Experiences at ACCA in 2014; and her recent large-scale exhibition of
sculptures in Complex Bodies, Gebert
Stiftung für Kultur, Switzerland in 2015.
Alicia Frankovich’s exhibition at
Starkwhite is produced in a parallel discussion process with Artspace’s THE
BILL, s programme of research-based exhibitions and events
curated by Artsapce director Misal Adnan Yıldız marking the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual
Law Reform Act in Aotearoa 1986. He will be in conversation with Alicia Frankovich on the occasion of The Female has Undergone Several
Manifestations at Starkwhite. (6 pm Monday, February 8,
2016 at Starkwhite).
These links take you to more on The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations and THE BILL.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Portrait of a Lady, 2016, inkjet print
