Søren Evinson

I use the medium of performance to generate new fantasies of the spectacular. I investigate the idealization of contemporary culture and navigate through its emphatic statements. I draw from motifs and imaginaries derived from consumer society and contemporary life. The works are intense, exuberant, complex, delirious, and in constant speculation with reality.

I work with words, locution, and discourse as form, presence, gesture, and action as form, gaze, audience, and connection as form. The exhibition of speech and the body serves as the runway to sequentially distribute something that appears sensitive to logos but disrupts its logic within its own codes of expression.

Project in residence:

With the confirmation of Postmodernity in the 90s through the massive reproduction of images, the longing for authenticity fixed its gaze on the scenarios of immediacy attributed to the poor. Being poor, being in survival mode, was equated with having no margin for representation. Hence, the correlations between an aesthetics of authenticity and an aesthetics of poverty.

Just as the passerby moves between disgust and fascination with the defenseless body of the poor, Vanity Poverty Revenge, through its angularity and tangentiality, will exhibit a constant movement that fluctuates between ideas of the wandering of a homeless person and the strutting on a catwalk.