Lupus in Fabula and Neurons Performance, sculpture at Me? You? No! It! exhibition
In the light of the bizarre and the surreal, Myriam Laplante’s work sets before us a circus and the comic
theatre of life, which could make us «laugh out loud« if she wasn’t playing in profound seriousness.
Projecting an image of the world through the personification of mythological or fictional characters,
Laplante’s performances create a space of opposition in which she tries to accommodate the misleading
promises of fairytales and her own entanglements with reality, where different - or no - rules apply.
Drawing on Grimm’s tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, the performance Lupus in Fabula
significantly takes off from the original story, turning the image of mother the saviour into mother
the destroyer of the world she herself creates. The no-longer innocent spectator is invited to enjoy the
transformed leftovers of the hour-long »massacre«.
The sculptural work Neurons, uses the idea of the irreplaceable and most essential cell of the nervous
system – responsible for processing and transmitting information – to comment on the malfunctioning
of the brains of world leaders…
The exhibition is open from 5th to 13th October 2007 (except on Mondays) between 10 am and 6 pm.
Organized by: City of Women
In collaboration with: Moderna Galerija
With the assistance of: Instituto Italiano di Cultura (Italian Institute of Culture),
Centre for Contemporary Arts Celje