BODIL OUÉDRAOGO – FRAMED INTIMACY

Bodil Ouédraogo (1995) is a visual artist that explores the art of dressing up and its cultural surroundings in her work. During Rewire Festival, she presents Framed Intimacy: a visual installation that combines sculpture, movement, video, and music composed by Bram Owusu. Camerawork and editing of the video is done by Anne Lakeman.

Informed by her Dutch and Burkinabe background, Bodil is interested in the different cultural ideas of what constitutes identity. For this installation, she takes West African sculptures as a starting point, longing to express togetherness through material heirlooms. She does so by enlarging the sculptures, framing them and wearing fragments of the sculptures in a performative way. In this way, she aims to shift dynamics on how a sculpture is perceived and embodies the stories that are hidden in them. This results in a visual and auditory research about posing, bearing and positioning yourself; a longing about who went before us. Framed Intimacy is a new chapter in Bodil’s work, after Port la Richesse and To Blend, Together. In both works, Bodil Ouédraogo worked together with Anne Lakeman and Bram Owusu and were presented at Amsterdam Fashion Week and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 2020 and 2021.

Framed Intimacy is commissioned by artist-run space Das Leben am Haverkamp and Rewire Festival and is part of a long-term collaboration between the two platforms. Through this collaboration, they aim to facilitate space for experimental crossovers between fashion, performance art and music

This work is generously supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, Stroom Den Haag and Rewire Festival.

composer: Bram Owusu
camera work and video editing: Anne Lakeman
talents: Jomecia Oosterwolde, Luna Frederique, Benjamin Aerts, osayi Osawe Turay, Siesa Moll and Mamadou Ouédraogo.
special thanks: Salimah Gablan, Sandra Witman, Studios, Margex
assistant: Vera Lelie