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Foreign Body - ‘Future Watch - 10 Konstnärer i Tiden’ - Kulturhuset Stadsteatern 16.04 - 08.08.21

With support from Konstnärsnämnden

A piece consisting of a large scale installation with sculptures, drawings aswell as a performance 
performed inside the installation.

Victoria Verseaus interdisciplinary artistry includes her own life experiences of identity, search for 
meaning and change as a transgender person. Victoria has described a feeling of having lived multiple 
lives and connects her experiences to both life and death as well as happiness and despair. "I lived 
fast and hard and then I crashed and art and film became a way to deal with all that" says Verseau. 
An event that came to characterize a large part of Verseau's artistry is the loss after the death of her 
friend Meril, whom she met in Thailand when both were to undergo a gender-affirming operation. 
In works that deal with the view of femininity, dreams and illusions, Victoria has sought to understand 
why the friend chose to take her own life and how it came to affect her. The work Foreign Body is a new 
collection and continued processing of previous works where a six meter long screen wall in latex and 
metal is in the foreground. Behind the wall is a series of sculptures and objects that together tell 
the story of Victoria's life as a kind of abstract self-portrait. Of interest is the boundary between 
public and private and life as it appears in front of and behind the "curtain" of everyday life. 
- Ashik Zaman, Curator.

‘Foreign Body’ Performance.
The artists Victoria Verseau and Oscar Andersson are childhood friends. In the performance Foreign Body, 
they rehearse together a performance they are going to put on. 'Foreign Body' is a performed conversation 
about teenage memories, fears, dreams, meaning, expectations and change. It's about growing up as a gay 
boy in the countryside in the 90s, going through a transition and experiencing being a woman, doing drag, 
surgeries and losing friends in the trans struggle.

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