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Kwinnie Lê

artistic research - community - language - performance - decolonization

I am an artist, researcher, poet and shapeshifter working on the intersection of body and language. Through examining their abilities to simultaneously admit and exclude, I hope to uncover counternarratives while still acknowledging these exclusions as inseparable from violence. Yet, a story of survival can still be told. They reveal themselves in performances, installations and poetry, though morphing into many more forms. By departing from mythology, folklore and oral histories, I situate ancestral traditions in contemporary urban life. My work desires to question the power of perception and re-suture narratives of classification. Currently, I'm investigating the revival, reclamation and (re)inscription of traditional tattoo practices and engage in semi-fictional narratives as a mode of critical speculation.