Pose Expose, Drawing room, Manila
Photo series framed
Dragon Dolls # 1-4: 30 x 45 cm from 2019
Gynophobia: 60 x 42 cm from 2020
Blood Feathers # 1-2: 60 x 42 cm from 2021
Exercises # 1-7: 40 x 26.67 cm from 2023
Hair painting series: Bigen hair dye on canvas: 150 x 200 cm
Pose Expose is an exhibition of excerpts from Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s photographic works related to her performances from 2019–2023, and the artist’s latest hair painting series. Her body of work, based on performance art, expands and transforms through different mediums. Cuenca plays, stretches, and swaps these mediums around, transitioning between subject/object, and using intricate visual elements.
The photographs, stringently shot in a studio or space with controlled lighting, setting and monochromatic backgrounds, freeze their time-based performance counterparts. Their sequential installation creates a constantly shifting exchange between visual language. The photographs are performative, the performance depicted static, the figure in the photograph sculptural and so on.
Text by Nicole Decapia
