I am a research-based curator and a multidisciplinary artist who uses self-representation to redefine contemporary social classes.\r\n\r\nQuestioning and embracing gender identity and sexuality is at the centre of my artistic practice, using my body as a concept and medium. Transforming exotified and historical western aesthetics, I honour and reapproriate the representations of my [working] class and [Mediterranean] diaspora while bringing tenderness and sensory pleasure into politics. I push the limits of the mediums I use by bringing a performative and site-specific aspect to my paintings, ceramics, and photographs.\r\n\r\nDespite its engaged tone, my work is often tender and humorous. With an immoderate taste for kitsch aesthetics and extravagance, I developed a seductive and colourful universe where beauty and sensuality merge with a playful and critical view of power dynamics. My work, in its essence, can be assimilated to camp, as I perform gender, ethnicity, and class through its various expressions.\r\n\r\nMy curator practice lies in the organisations I co-founded, which are Squish, a queer-feminist cultural platform that works with LGBT+ makers and studies identity politics with an intersectional approach; and Kollection Kitsch, an exhibition series democratising fine arts financially and conceptually by invading places not primarily dedicated to them. Featuring proletarian artists exploring rejected or mocked themes and aesthetics, KK praises bad taste and pop culture.
Fem Disturbances
GRAW 2024
Crafting Futures - Queering cultural heritage
Kollection Kitsch #7 Bling Bling
Flux
LOOM
Pissprelude
A surreal vision
The economy of tenderness (W139 Hosts)
History Happens Now
Beauty Salon
Mediterranean garden
We are here: all year round!
Kollection Kitsch #5 The politics of polishing
Seeking Venus
Kollection Kitsch #4 Cut the mustard
Kollection Kitsch
Kollection Kitsch is an exhibition space melting with Wunderbar where artists, curators, neighbours and art lovers can come together to enjoy art over a drink. The exhibitions last for 3 months and focus on a different theme. Small formats artworks are on sale for 10 euros in a customized candy machine.
Exhibitions & Performances 2022
-Free the Kitsch - Athens Filmfest, Interferences - Kino 28, Athens (Greece)
-Check de Mic, KeileCollectif, Rotterdam (NL)
-KARMAKLUBB* + PHOTOGRAPHY DAY, Preus Museum - Norway’s National Museum of Photography, Horten (Norway)
-Untitled performance, Oliver Doe, Slash Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
-A charmed life, Transmission gallery & Short supply (UK)
-Too fem for art, Wunderbar, Rotterdam (NL)
-Kollection Kitsch: Visual identity & graphic design
-Grote Kunstkalender, Rotterdam (NL)
Squish Radio
Squish radio is an organic spontaneous open mic program featuring queer and LGBTQIA+ people from the local creative scene. Each of the three hosts developed series of sessions tackling themes they have at heart.
Aubane will introduce and interview visual artists and performers. Beside this casual and intimate program, she will run Blanket Huts, a series of podcasts gathering researchers and creatives to discuss topics concerning queerness, genders and sexualities.
Let me wear socks in my velvet high heel sandals
Solo exhibition and portrait making every Saturday and Sunday
Collective Exhibitions & Performances 2021
-Queer photography: a non-definitive survey, SEAS, Brighton
-Dirty Palace, Studio C.A.R.E, Rotterdam
-Expo Pink, Pink screens festival, Cinema Nova, Brussels
-Pandora’s box, International Women Theater Festival, Frankfurt
-Queens of marmalade: Art & music mini festival, Studio Cool, Rotterdam
-GRRL Telephone, GRRL Haus, Berlin
-The face of the other: Collective exhibition, SEAS, Brighton
-The queer & now, Queer spectra art festival, Salt Lake City
Solo exhibitions 2021
-Le sens de la fête: Solo exhibition, Bar3, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
-Let me wear socks in my velvet high hell sandals: Solo exhibition, Studio Cool, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Squish
Squish is a queer and feminist cultural organization supporting emerging artists and culture makers. The platform organises various research based multidisciplinary events.
Exhibitions & Performances 2020
-Touch: Collective exhibition (online), bG Gallery & Gesalt Projects, Santa Monica (USA)
-Back to Squishness: Collective exhibition, WORM, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
-Strange Love Avant-lentine: Performance & solo exhibition, The Performance Bar, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Exhibitions & Performances 2019
-Pas de Pantalon: Live painting performance,The Performance Bar, Rotterdam
-Myths of the near future: Design of visuals, The Performance Bar, Rotterdam
-Borders and Boundaries: Design of visuals, The Performance Bar, Rotterdam
-Beyond Borders: Collective exhibition, VeniceLands Artprize, Trevisio (Italy)
-Start up: Unsettled Tentions: Collective exhibition, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
-Shadows: Collective exhibition, Loosenart Gallery, Rome
Exhibitions & Performances 2018
-KONTRA Festival: Participative live photography, Roodkapje, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
-A Small Part of Everything: Collective exhibition, Fijnhout cultureel centrum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)