The Galerie du 10 of the Instituto Francés in Madrid presents next Tuesday 22 February at 19.30, the new exhibition Maquillarse en la oscuridad (Make up in the dark), by Mehryl Levisse, which will be attended by the artist.
Welcome to the gallery, art or horror, it’s up to you. Here, illusion reigns supreme and bodies are uninhibited, ready for any metamorphosis. The party that takes place here welcomes the creatures of the night that the day makes marginal, it offers them a refuge that immediately becomes their stage. It looks like a religious procession, a shooting or a decadent social gathering. All at the same time.
Mehryl Levisse opens to the public a strange museum show in which gender norms and the contours of the body are redrawn. A small theatre of ambiguous identities, Make Up in the Dark synthesises the artist’s research into ornament and adornment, performative presence, sexual play and gender confusion. It is a true ode and a cry of love to all those that society labels as marginal. Through the creation of folk wallpaper, eccentric costumes and other plastic curiosities, markers of her aesthetic, Mehryl Levisse recalls here the queer in its most deliciously bizarre version, opening the space of an in-between, on the threshold of the night, at the crossroads of genres, somewhere between the creepy and the marvellous.
