{"id":36903,"date":"2016-09-06T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=36903"},"modified":"2016-09-06T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:46:32","slug":"donna-huanca-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/donna-huanca-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein Atelierbesuch mit Donna Huanca"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nCombining performance, painting and sculpture, Donna Huanca\u00a0is bringing the dead back to life with the help of her audience. For SLEEK 51<\/a>, we visited the artists’ Kreuzberg\u00a0studio as she prepares for the opening of “Surrogate Painteen”, a solo exhibition currently on display at Berlin’s Peres-Projekte<\/a> gallery. Read below for\u00a0an\u00a0exclusive look into Huanca’s\u00a0workspace as\u00a0the creative explains\u00a0how the\u00a0afterlife has inspired\u00a0her latest\u00a0works.
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\n\"Donna
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\nImages of the body are Donna Huanca\u2019s core motif. Sheaths of skin-like fabric \u2013 painted, torn, burned, creased, crumpled, layered and stretched \u2013 permeate every aspect of her output, and even her atelier. Today, her Kreuzberg workshop is a jumble of shiny, metallic, candy-coloured clothes, sheets of industrial plastic sheeting, and pastel toned paintings. Having moved her studio from New York to Berlin three-weeks ago, she\u2019s already unleashed her entire battery of resources, filling the converted garage from floor to ceiling with recently exhibited pieces and new works in progress. Few furnishings grace her studio apart from a small stage, placed in the centre of the room, the locus of her creative process.
\nCurrently preparing new work for a series of solo exhibitions opening across Europe this autumn, she seems unfazed by the change in scenery. Growing up in Chicago, she accompanied her Bolivian parents every summer to Fiesta de la Virgen de Urkupi\u00f1a, a religious festival attracting up to a million visitors. \u201cBeing little and dancing all night, the festival chaos is still embedded in my brain,\u201d says Huanca. \u201cThe colours and sounds\u2026 It was ritual debauchery and surreal, totally exceptional to my otherwise normal, daily life. These surreal, psychedelic pockets of time, really fuel what I do now.\u201d
\nIn her early works, such as the 2009 video \u201cDressing the Queen (Pachamama)\u201d, she began embedding found textiles into her work. \u201cI started to cut up my clothing, gluing it on canvas,\u201d she says, \u201cMy intention was immediacy and painting with fabric was the fastest and most visceral way to achieve that.\u201d
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\n\"Donna
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\nToday, this approach has expanded into performance, encompassing models in various states of undress, channelling new age spirituality and psychedelic ritualism. In these shows, the body, and more specifically the nude female body, is put on display, reclaiming how women\u2019s forms are seen with a non-sexual agenda. Painted in various brightly coloured shades, they move slowly, conducting partially improvised movements, pausing in angular positions, interacting with surrounding installations. Remnants from each production roll over from one project to the next. For example, imprints of her models\u2019 painted forms like those on Plexiglas panels created in \u201cWater Scars\u201d at Valentin in Paris last year, become fodder for paintings such as \u201csmokey eye (cry)\u201d, composed of fingerprints made with mascara and oil on wool. \u201cNeither I nor the viewer can fully grasp or control the models,\u201d Huanca says. When shown side-by-side, her static installations and performances emphasise the role of the audience \u2013 who act as intermediaries between the two mediums \u2013 becoming part of it in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to focus on giving audiences a meditative experience” \u2013 Donna Huanca<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To Huanca, the models are projections of herself, and the Plexiglas panels and fabric sheaths function as shelters. \u201cBeing the subject of \u2018the gaze\u2019 is exhausting,\u201d she states. \u201cAnd the materials the models wear start to function similarly to the way we use clothing and make-up as armour in the real world.\u201d Although she considers these static compositions to be \u2018dead\u2019 when compared to her \u2018living\u2019 works with models, by placing them in this context she reinvigorates them using the audience\u2019s eye. \u201cTo me, this is like looking at the past, like relics at the natural history museum,\u201d she says, grabbing one of her woven sculptures. \u201cThat\u2019s why I want to infuse them during the performance with someone who is living, breathing and changing.\u201d
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\n\"Donna
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\nFollowing her 2015 exhibition \u201cEcho Implant\u201d at Joe Sheftel Gallery in New York, Huanca began photographing the body paintings on her models, making abstractions from details such as ears and crevices. \u201cWhen the performances are happening, nobody gets close to the models. There were things I thought audiences weren\u2019t seeing and at the end of the night, my paintings would wash off of the models. There was a sadness in losing those works that I wanted to capture.\u201d She then recreated some of these techniques in the studio, printed the close-up images on canvas and over-painted in layers, using the same materials applied to the models like clown paint, clay and turmeric, incorporating oil stick and sand for added density.
\nIn addition to a solo show opening at Peres Projects in Berlin this September, Huanca will present her largest exhibition to date at the Zabludowicz Collection in London as part of their annual commissions. The exhibition focuses on the seven layers of the epidermis, guiding audiences through a series of installations in different parts of the former 19th century Methodist Chapel. Featuring altars, totems, a vibrating stage and a three-storey structure made from glass scaffolding, it\u2019s her most ambitious project to date, and one that she hopes visitors will appreciate as they become immersed within it. \u201cI want to focus on giving audiences a meditative experience,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen you are there, you\u2019re alive.\u201d
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\nDonna Huanca’s “Surrogate Painteen<\/a>” is on display at Peres Projects until 28 October 2016<\/strong> \n 
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Fotografie von Kevin Mason<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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