Liberty, of thee I sing…

This issue of the Fo(u)r 4 features images of two performance pieces: Lady Liberty and Twin Towers. Patricia Faolli and Raquel Mavecq embodied the collapse of the iconic Towers on the tenth anniversary, September 11, 2011. Ladies Katrina De Wees and Lily Mengesha stood up as moving, breathing statues of (the concept of) Liberty at the same event, LetterToObama: Live From New York.

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TWIN TOWERS: PATRICIA FAOLLI & RAQUEL MAVECQ

LADY LIBERTY: KATRINA DE WEES & LILY MENGESHA 

Photos by JENNY EOM

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CURATOR. STATEMENT.

Performance offers opportunities for people to sculpt bodies into artistic statements. These 44 photographs document the living memorials these four women collaboratively created of themselves.

- M. Liz Andrews

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

KATRINA DE WEES believes the process of generating performance/art is an intrinsic form of liberation, personal spiritual or otherwise. She likes to move, think, write and travel between spaces where she can feel the her/(his)tories in the walls.

PATRICIA FAOLLI é um pequeno animal selvagem from the Concrete Jungles of Brasil. She believes that creation of art comes with experimenting with the Tempo-Espaço surrounding us. She is excited by living in Nova Iorque and ringing conflito, chaos, and questionamento to its inhabitants.

RAQUEL MAVECQ prefers the noise. In São Paulo, Brazil, she was born with her eyes open under a clear sky winter day. She sees art making as a statement for existence and believes that late night local trains can tell secrets. Motion to move and be moved.

LILY MENGESHA is a neo(n)-native and a post-post-colonial tourist. When she’s not spending her time crafting 5-year-olds into revolutionaries, she fills the rest with sequin portraits and words in motion.
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Liberty of thee I sing… by M. Liz Andrews, Jenny Eom, Katrina De Wees, Patricia Faolli, Raquel Macecq, Lily Mengesha is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at www.LetterToObama.com.
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