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From the series novoa, 5 medium size analog portrait photos made with a Rolleiflex 3.5. Photos are taken by Lucciana Bolivar. Image credit: Lucciana Bolivar and lucie draai.

Born in 1979 in Bogotá, Colombia, lucie draai was adopted by a Dutch couple when she was just a couple of weeks old. Growing up in the Netherlands as an adoptee of colour has made her aware of different aspects of care – differences she further explored during her eight months of living with and caring for the living matter of slime mould (‘Physarum polycephalum’). Currently, her exhibition from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background is on view at Daily Practice in Rotterdam.

when lucie meets ketan, 2 channel video work, loop, 2021 (close up), from to (dis)appear ~ the performance of everyday life as part of the group show The Brain Mixologist at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, 21.08.2021 - 31.10.2021. Image credit: LNDW Studio.

Botanic_X by Banquet X, DAI, COOP SUMMIT 2019, Cagliari (Sardinia). A performative eating ritual of Physarum polycephalum (Ketan) assisted by Assem Hendawi, Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff and Bjarke Hvass Kure in the Roman Cistern of the Botanical Gardens in Cagliari. Image credit: Nikos Doulos. 

draai’s graduation performance at DAI took place in an Italian botanical garden in which she discovered a historical Roman cistern. The Ketan eating-ritual that was performed in there took place four times for twenty participants each. Before going ahead by taking an oat-flake scoop of Ketan to eat, draai recited a text she wrote on becoming a garden.

from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background a performative work in collaboration with Ellen Mary Rooijakkers and Lucciana Bolivar at Daily Practice (Rotterdam, NL) from August 28 until October 9, 2022. Image credit: jhoeko.

At Daily Practice, a non-profit art and practice space in Rotterdam, draai positioned five pieces of fabric in the centre of the space. Hanging from the ceiling, the meshed fabric looks fragile. When walking around them the colours, hung up in the gradient order from yellow to brown, merge with each other. The light falling in through the window increases this effect and the five photos on the wall next to it seem to play with different layers of light as well.

From the series novoa, 5 medium size analog portrait photos made with a Rolleiflex 3.5. Photos are taken by Lucciana Bolivar. Image credit: Lucciana Bolivar and lucie draai.

Still from the videodocumentation of the performance to (dis)appear ~ the performance of everyday life as part of the group show The Brain Mixologist at A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam, 21.08.2021 - 31.10.2021. Image credit: Areumnari Ee.

draai’s performance  to (dis)appear ~ the performance of everyday life at A Tale of a Tub in Rotterdam had her friendship with Ketan and its needs as a guide to how to move together with the audience through the space. As the 10 minute performance went on it was explored how the figure of the human adoptee of colour reclaims their imagination and welcomes the viewer in their world with them.

8 Color polaroid photos of the performance from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background on August 8, 2022 at Daily Practice (Rotterdam, NL). Polaroids taken by Fabiënne van den Ierssel. Image credit: jhoeko.

lucie draai’s exhibition (icw Ellen Mary Rooijakkers and Lucciana Bolivar) from yellow to brown (un)measured against a white background is on view at Daily Practice in Rotterdam until the 9th of October, 2022.

 

[1] The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An interview with Sylvia Wynter, 2000 by Scott David, published in Small Axe no. 8, p. 197

[2] On Difference without Separability, 2016 by Denise Ferreira da Silva, buplished in Incerta viva., pp. 56-65, the catalogue of the 32nd São Paulo Art Biennial

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