Andree Weschler

(France/Singapore)

Innocence #03

The 3rd piece of a series of performances.

In 2006, my life was going through a desert. Everybody seemed busy, active, alive and I was a prisoner in my own apartment. Nothing was happening to me, I felt I was a thing among others in my home.

One day I received from a friend a pack of porcelain. I started to roll small pearls of porcelain for no reason. They were cute.

To stress my lethargy, every night I rolled pearls made of porcelain, a bit like Penelope doing tapestry waiting for Ulysse, except that in my story there was no Ulysse.

All the pearls together became a very long necklace of a few meters, very beautiful, very difficult to move, very heavy.

This performance is telling a story.

Andree Weschler, a French artist who has been living and practising art in Asia for more than 13 years, studied Visual Arts in Singapore, Australia and Les Beaux Arts de Paris. She has exhibited in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, China, Korea, Australia, Argentina, Chile and London. She is interested in using her body to understand and express her ideas. The body is her tool to discover material and become a material in itself. Her work explores the boundaries of acceptable social constructs. Andree Weschler performs in public spaces in order to challenge the general populace to read her performance of bodily difference.