Live and Live streamed performance that takes up the idea of mirroring, created as part of the installation Walls of Wind: The mirroring and rendering in the context of the group exhibition I’ve Only Known My Own (Optica), and elaborated in response to Murs de vent's private performance produced in the context of I've Only Known My Own (She Works Flexible). Both iterations were curated by Nicole Burisch.

Duration : a little over 2 hrs

« In this performance, Grebmeier Forget developed a choreographed sequence inspired by a burlesque routine by Betty Rowland and a film featuring actress Angela Aames. For over two hours, she projected looped video footage on the wall, of which she loosely imitated the movements and reproduced the costumes on herself. Through a repetitive and adaptive structure, the intention of the performance was to create a 'pièce montée' [...]. The various ornamental ingredients and accessories brought together for this purpose— flowers, sprinkles, maraschino cherries, 35% cream, sugar flowers, a can of whipped cream, frosting, and so on—critically charged the interpretation of (or diversion from) the background videos by placing them in tension with the artist’s body and with the matter and materials employed. »

— Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau an Maude Johnson, extracted from the publication produced in complement to the exhibition ..move or be moved by something than onself, Critical Distance, Toronto, 2018. (Translated from French by: Käthe Roth)

Documentation : Paul Litherland