Fleshy [2019]
durational performance
Performance: Federica Dauri
Concept: Federica Dauri, Hermes Pittakos
Sculpture: Hermes Pittakos
Produced by Peaches
2019 — Whose Jizz Is This?, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Solo exhibition by Peaches
11 November 2019 OPYUM Video Performance Festival, Paris, France
2 September 2020 — BROKENNESS, Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Skopje, North Macedonia
Durational performance presented within the group exhibition curated by Slavcho Dimitrov, 8th Skopje Pride Weekend
2 October 2021 — In Excess, 3hd Festival: Power Play, Park Center Treptow, Berlin, Germany
Group exhibition curated by Creamcake.
Fleshy is a long-durational performance .At the centre of the work is a large sculptural surface made of silicone and latex, composed of enlarged casts and forms evoking skin, organs, and genitalia. Spread across the floor like a carpet of flesh, the sculpture creates an artificial anatomy suspended between the recognisable and the abstract, the erotic and the uncanny. Punctuated by multiple openings and cavities, it becomes an environment to be physically entered and inhabited.
Through these openings, the performer’s body slowly appears, disappears, and re-emerges. Over the course of the performance, fragments of the living body become entangled with the artificial anatomy surrounding them. At times, only parts of the body remain visible, gradually destabilising the distinction between flesh and its sculptural extension. Skin encounters silicone, organic matter meets its synthetic double, and the boundaries between performer and sculpture begin to dissolve.
Through duration, repetition, and a slow, hypnotic physicality, Fleshy unfolds as a continuous process of metamorphosis. The sculpture becomes at once a second skin, an external organism, and an expanded anatomy, while the performer shifts between body, image, and living sculpture. Rather than representing a fixed creature or identity, the work inhabits the threshold between the organic and the artificial, the erotic and the uncanny, questioning where the body ends and the object begins.