Pretoria based multimedia artist, Ulricke Lourens’s MA (FA) exhibition entitled Reconstructed Constriction opens on

15 November 2006

at 18h30

 at Fried Contemporary Art Gallery & Studio.

The exhibition will be opened by award-winning artist Diane Victor

The works featured in this exhibition consist out of 9 video-based works, photographs and digital prints of video stills that explore the impact of waist training on the female body.

By performing waist training and documenting it, as part of the creative process, a comment is made on identity, but it is an identity that is disguised and screened. As such the waist trained torso becomes an iconic representation for femininity. By mimicking the elaborate and painful processes which women use to compel the body to conform to a shape they do not have at the beginning of the process, the performer deploys sexuality in such a way that what is visible is construed as absurd, extremely uncomfortable and shocking by the viewer.