Tales Frey

Dismorfofobia (2012)

 

Tales Frey, Dysmorphophobia. Performance showed in Porto, Portugal. March 2012. Photo by Jorge Quintela

 

Dysmorphophobia is a hybrid performance, based on “The philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B & Back Again)” and created through a set of texts collected from newspapers and television advertisements, this show proposes reflection and irony of what comes to fashion and beauty. In this work, the body dysmorphic disorder (body image distortion) is associated to diets that are considered “miraculous”, to eating disorders, plastic surgeries, through many other drastic forms of body change.

This work is one of nine performances from the PhD project “Performance art and ritual: fashion and religion in body marks”. This research is developed at the University of Coimbra (Portugal).

 

CREDITS

Performance by Tales Frey | Invited performers: Lizi Menezes, Hilda de Paulo, Tânia Dinis, Thais Nepomuceno and Xana Miranda | Duration: 10 minutes | Year of the creation: 2012

 

TRAJECTORY

LIVE

[2012] Tombola Show. Curated by Marta Bernardes. Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal.

 

AS VIDEO

[2014] Exhibition Fashion and Religiosity in Body Marks. SESC Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto-SP, Brazil.

[2014] Exhibition Fashion and Religiosity in Body Marks. SESC Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil.

[2013] Exhibition Fashion and Religiosity in Body Marks. Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura, Guimarães, Portugal.

 

Tales Frey, Dysmorphophobia, 2012. Video, 7’05”