ABIGAIL ALEKSANDER + MAR* SZYDŁOWSKA Skinfold

Dismantling the compartmentalisation of the body, SKINFOLD is a choreographic disintegration of flesh and form. Influenced by Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body, which cleaves language open in its radical re-envisioning of flesh, SKINFOLD undoes the rigid frameworks of bodily perception and felt sense. This is not a performance of arrival, nor an attempt to transcend. By liquefying the hardened forms imposed by expectation and identity, SKINFOLD fractures the conventional grammar of the body, creating something mercurial; transforming it into a mutable terrain where familiar forms collapse into fluid ambiguity. Skin folds into itself, limbs blur boundaries, and what once seemed stable becomes something beautifully unknown.

about

Abigail Aleksander works as a performer and collaborator with a variety of artists including: Alexis Blake, Philipp Gehmacher, Jan Martens, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Michiel Vandevelde. They began their dance training at The Centre For Advanced Training (The Place) in London before graduating with their Bachelor of Arts from P.A.R.T.S. in 2022 in Brussels. SKINFOLD is their first choreographic co-creation.
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Mar* Szydłowska works at the intersection of visual and performing arts. Their practice traces the withdrawn and peripheral qualities of presence/absence, unfolding the politics of perception and attention through durational environments. Their work was presented at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, among others. They finished MA STUDIOS programme at P.A.R.T.S. in 2021 and are currently a research companion at THIRD, DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam.
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