Performing a Lifetime
Text by Saara Mahbouba
Drawings by Gladys Camlio
64 pp
Hardcover
110 x 140 mm
Helsinki, 2021
Published by quince ediciones
Performing a lifetime is an exploration of bodies and identities belonging to the in-between. Saara Mahbouba and Gladys Camilo reflect on the complications of navigating between accurate representation of oneself and one’s community and the traps of performativity, appropriation, and self-exploitation. Exploring the complexities of working ethically in a contemporary art scene that simultaneously lauds and punishes otherness, Performing a Lifetime taps into the artists’ personal experiences of embodying identities that are neither fully within nor without categories of otherness and hegemonic bodies.
