Dates
| 04.09.2025 / 18:30 |
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What can breasts do?
An artist with nonbinary breasts (and a future mastectomy) “trains” their chest like a bodybuilder, lifting progressively heavier household items using only their breasts in a deadpan parody of strength competitions.
This irreverent performance-art-meets-circus-act flips the script on the cultural fixation with breasts as passive objects (measured, sexualized, and medicalized) by transforming them into into a site of both labor and rebellion.
Each lifted object becomes a satirical unit of societal expectation and what begins as physical comedy evolves into something else: a demonstration of how bodies accumulate social weight long before they’re allowed to set it down.
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Performer: Leire de Meer
Assistant: Reza Dost
English / 20 minutes
Leire de Meer (1999, Madrid) is a visual artist and performer whose practice focuses on the ability that fiction has to alter materiality. Through performance, video, participatory art and the creation of artistic communities they explore questions around queer embodiment, monstrous bodies, and grief. They studied Fine Arts at Complutense University of Madrid and an MA in History of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture from Reina Sofía National Museum in collaboration with Complutense University and Autonoma University of Madrid. Since then, they have exhibited their work internationally in Tokyo (KUMA Gallery), Hiroshima (SAGORI Gallery Space), Helsinki (Lapinlahden Lähde), Maribor (OBRAT Gallery), and nationally in Barcelona (Ca la Dona) and Madrid (Museo Reina Sofía and Intermediae Matadero). They have also participated in contemporary art conferences in Helsinki (ELIA Biennal), Madrid (Acción Springt), Barcelona (Bollos et al) and Tokyo (Stilllive Studies).
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