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Jennifer
Allen
Jennifer Allen's practice is concerned with the transgression of facade
and the construction of behavioural boundaries. Her performance/videos
explore the point at which Glamour becomes uncrowned and reveals its
immanent juxtaposition with banality and/or failure.
Allen currently works as a Striptease dancer in London, and consequently her
art practice has become influenced by this profession.
Much of Allen's performance/video work choreographs contexts to enable Glamour/Striptease
dancing to exist alongside the everyday, death, abjection, (on video).
Whilst Glamour can be seen as separate from banality, Allen is also interested
in the dialectics of this relationship, and the possibility that Glamour employs
the everyday, death, abjection, and that this relationship serves to enhance
Glamour? Allen's practice is concerned with the question of what Glamour and
fantasy can be or indeed is.
This dialectic is explored through her recent performance/video 'Happy Christmas
Mom & Dad', as scheduled to show-case in Spit Roast at Gallery
33 alongside the paintings of Joanna Wilmot.
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