Filip Vest
Filip Vest (they/them, DK, b. 1995) holds an MFA from Malmö Art Academy. Through performances, installations, films, and texts, they examine queer love, loneliness, and desire in the 21st century. Applying rehearsal methods from theatre, they test the relationship between the script and the body to investigate the different ways we perform our identities and relations.
Filip Vest has previously shown their work at SMK The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen Contemporary, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Arken Museum for Contemporary Art, Den Frie, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Roskilde Festival, Tallinn Art Hall, MMCA Seoul, Museum of Modern Art Zagreb and at Manifesta13 as well as The 15th Gwanju Biennale. Their work is in the collection of Moderna Museet.
Selected projects:
Self Tape (2024)
Prøvedage / The Tryouts (2024)
Resort (2023)
The Wide-Mouthed Frog (2022)
Bunk (2022, 2024)
Filmkys / Movie Kiss (2022)
Bed Made To Look Like Body (2021)
Foot Fault (2021)
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Instagram Self Tape (2024)
Self Tape is an exploration of precarious work, identity, queerness, exhaustion, and humiliation in late capitalism. We follow an androgenous creature with light blue skin, long ears and red boots, that is being held captive in an eternal casting limbo by an unknown entity that only takes the shape of a menacing buzzer sound and a red light.
The creature that is part monster, part pop princess is struggling to find a role that it can play, as it code switches between famous monsters and divas throughout the time: Gollum, Frankenstein's monster, Marilyn Monroe and Dolly Parton among others. When the creature is not performing monologues, dancing or playing music with its long nails, it tries to answer questions about its prior work experience, but ends up talking about its ex and childhood instead. "What are you looking for?" the creature asks in a mix between frustration, flirtation, and fear…
Review - Kunstkritikk
Ringsted Galleriet, MMCA Seoul, The fifteenth Gwanju Biennale, Moderna Museet Malmö
Concept / directing / scenography: Filip Vest
PERFORMED BY: Filip Vest
FILM/EDITING: VILLE VIDØ
Music: FRANCESCA BURATELLI
Choreography: PAOLO DE VENECIA GILE
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: RASMUS BALLING
MAKE-UP: LINE SARA HEIBERG, NOR BÜLOW
Supported by: Statens Kunstfond, Ny Carlsberg Fondet, DEN HIELMSTIERNE-ROSENCRONSKE STIFTELSE
Thank you to: METTE RIISE, DANIEL MØLHOLT BÜLOW, BILLIE MEINICHE, CHRISTY DOKBUA, LISBETH HOLTEN, MORTEN VEST, PERNILLE EMILIA KJÆR, ASTA HERTA MØLLHOLST