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.

 

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