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BALANCING ON
THE EDGE/AGE

ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age

CHICAGO, IL, USA  •  2014

PERFORMING WITH

Begoña Grande

PHOTOGRAPHER

Antonio Zaragoza

CURATOR

Anna Felicity and

Joseph Ravens

EVENT

Majesty of Flesh

VENUE

Defibrillator Gallery

ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age

“Performance of gender", Rocío as a performance artist and specifically as myself, a 67 year old woman living in the 21st Century, a time where we still suffer from ageism. By questioning the capitalist system that's imposed on women in this stage of life (age): "Between Menopause and Old Age"...To age gracefully? Hell no! I'm psychotic about how this media PHENOMENON is used to convert the victim (of age) in a compulsive consumer, lost in the useless search for her lost youth.

 

My proposal aims to demystify the horror of old age in an ironical way, inventing my own deranged aesthetic and moral solutions for the "problem of age". Finally, I hope my mockery of this absurd contemporary reality exposes a broken society based on looks and how old age became synonymous of an insult. 

ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
ROCIO BOLIVER - La Congelada de Uva - Balancing on the edge/age
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