SOFA NEW YORK 2005

Seventh Regiment Armory - Park Avenue and 67th
Thursday, June 2”€Sunday, June 5
Opening Night Benefit for Museum of Arts and Design: Wednesday, June 1

Liuba " Virus - Trilogy

Project for three videos and videosculptures
Performance: Wednesday, June 1, Opening time

Presented by

WeissPollack Galleries

521 - 531 West 25th Street
Ground Floor # 9
New York City 10001
tel. 212.9893708
fax. 212.9896392

This project has been realized and developed into three different works and steps. The first one was the performance Virus at Bologna ’Arte Fierà (the most important commercial Art Fair in Italy) in 2004. The performance has become then a DVD video work with videostills. The second action is Virus - tableaux vivant hold at the Milan Flash Art Fair, 2004. It has then edited in a DVD video and caugh with polaroid photos. The third work is the performance Sold Out, at the Arte Giovane dinner party in Milan, Novembre 2004. Sold Out then became a video and a polaroid photos serie.

Virus is investigating over the ’buying bulimy’, that affects the daily-life models and the art world as well.
Liuba went to Artefieràs opening dressed with red dots. Then she took off them from her dress and put over all the art works exhibited at the fair, creating astonishment, collapse, confusion and funny shock over visitors, gallerists, artists.
An ironical reflection over value of works and value of selling.

Virus, performance, Bologna Arte Fiera 2004, still da DVD

The performance Virus-tableaux vivant has been conceived for the Milan Flash Art Fair into the hotel and his rooms. The project has been realized with a videoinstallation in the bathroom and a tableaux vivant.

Virus tableaux vivant, investigate, in an ironical way, the merchandising of women’s body completely fulled with red dots and completely sold.

Virus " tableaux vivant, performance, Milano Flash Art Fair, 2004, foto polaroid

Invited to prepare a performance for the Arte Giovane dinner party (associacion of collectors), Liuba played the game of putting che ’buying’ red dots over people partecipating at the dinner-event. But only at a first glace, however, it was a light and funny game, for the deep level of the action is a bitter reflection over the possession dynamics of relationship and a critical point of view about the rules of interestests and power that interacts in human social life.

The performance intracts with all the partecipants in a way that they also partecipate becoming performers themselfes, in a way of interactive art and site-specific action, and contamination between art and life.

Sold Out, performance, Milano, Old Fashion, still da DVD, 2005