THIS IS THE BEST ARTWORK, 2022, video: 3′ 45“, color, sound, 3 + 2ap; performance: Venice Biennale Opening 2019
This is the Best Artwork is composed by the shootings of LIUBA’s performance piece at the opening of the Venice Biennale in 2019, when she was pregnant of her son.
LIUBA mixed the boundaries between life and art, revealing herself to the public of the Biennale with a dress designed for the occasion, which left her pregnant belly exposed and featured the words “This is the Best Artwork”.The artist showed herself as the Best Artwork among the other artworks on view at the Biennale, stating that ‘life’ is the best artwork of all.
The performance dress, conceived as a sculpture, has been created together with the fashion designer Valentina Donadel.
LIUBA’s videos come from a long creative process that involves project idea and concept, performance production, interactions of people, places identities, collaboration with specific selected cameramen, editing and direction, which are made by the artist herself. The resulting videos mix together all those elements and it a complementary work of the performance itself.
“I consider my videos like paintings, books and sculptures. I carve them, beginning with hours and hours of shootings as they were a huge marble stock, cutting and selecting piece after piece in order to obtain the final shape.
I paint every single second of the video, deciding colors and combining sequences, in order to arrive to the final pattern. I write chapters and scenes as a story, giving a sense to each step following the other. I mix the music with the intent to give voice to the whole levels of lecture implicit in the work. I often collaborate with musicians asking tracks to work with.
I use only original shootings taken during my performances. No studio shootings or actor interactions are used to edit my videos. What is shown is part of what ‘really’ happened and it’s chance one of the main hero of the work.”
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