Discipline
lnterdisciplinary
About the artist
Kwinnie Lê is an artist, researcher, poet and shapeshifter working on the intersection of body and language. By examining their abilities to simultaneously admit and exclude, she hopes to uncover counternarratives while still acknowledging these exclusions as inextricable from violence. Yet, in spite of that, a story of survival can still be told. Lê is currently investigating the revival, reclamation and (re)inscription of traditional tattoo practices and engages in semi-fictional narratives as a mode of critical speculation. By departing from mythology, folklore and oral histories, they situate ancestral traditions in contemporary urban life. Kwinnie’s work desires to question the power of perception and re-suture narratives of classification. They reveal themselves in performances, installations and poetry, though shapeshifting into many more forms.
2021, Of myriad origins, Video performance, Tattooing, Teeth Blackening, 4’19”
Other works of the artist
2022, The land of the tattooed, performance icw with Nash Caldera & textile, Tattoo