Celebrated as one of the most influential performance artists of his generation, MOT International presents Ulay‘s first solo exhibition in Brussels. Referencing his 1970s series Anagramatic Bodies, new photo collages feature German actresses Nina Hoss and Iris Berben, together with models Lily McMenamy and Stella Lucia, while works from the artist’s photographic archive cumulatively recount his nomadic, itinerant life over the past forty years. The exhibition includes rarely-presented projects produced during his career defining collaboration with Marina Abramović, such as the artist’s extensive personal documentation of 1988’s The Great Wall Walk in diaries, drawings and a pair of seven metre scrolls, in addition to photographs recording the artist’s time in the Central Australian Desert (1979) with members of the aboriginal Pintubi community.
Addressing the artist’s continued interest in dismanteling constructs of self-identification and gender, early Polaroid self-portraits, performances and collaborations with Jürgen Klauke offer an extraordinary opportunity to survey the Ulay’s radical contributions to photography and performance history.
Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
Photograph and travel permit, 46 x 41 cm
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Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
right: Australia Aborigines Ceremony, 1979, Epson pigment print on Hahnemüle photo rag, 61 x 81 cm.
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Gelatin silver print, 27.5 x 33.5 cm
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Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
Unique hand collaged photography on card, 214 x 152 x 5 cm.
Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
Courtesy the artist and MOT International London & Brussels.
