ALICIA FRANKOVICH
Alicia Frankovich was born in Tauranga, New Zealand, 1980, holds a BVA in sculpture from AUT, Auckland. She lives and works in Berlin. Frankovich is interested in the potential for new modes of imagining bodies, their behaviours and environments, both human and non-human. Frankovich has held solo and two-person exhibitions including The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations, Starkwhite, Auckland (2016), Complex Bodies (with Klara Lidén), Kurator, Alte Fabrik, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil, Switzerland, (2015), Today this technique is the other way around, Kunstverein Hildesheim, (2013). She has participated group exhibitions and performances including: Liste performance programme, Basel, Switzerland, Les Limbes, La Galerie, Noisy-le-sec (2016), Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2014), Nouvelles Vagues: The Real Thing, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013).
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PROJECT FOR BFSP#01
Two Lips embodies a dialogue of becoming between living and non-living, imagining a body from a posthuman perspective. This shell is at once an environment and a body: a habitat for an animal, and a fleshy form in itself, an analogy for the body. This form is a sculptural thinking-through the ideas of feminist theorists Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti and their call to broaden our awareness of ourselves beyond a closed, human-centered framework. This work could be seen as a semi-fictive female body or topology; imagined and at the same time real.
