“Directing Light onto Fist of Father” evolves over three parts:

Part I Initiation: September 15, 6-8pm Throughout the exhibition’s opening reception, MPA will present the action “Initiation.”

Part II The Act: September 16-November 5 Between these dates, MPA will present a series of unscheduled actions at the gallery.

Part III Invitation: November 8-12 Including the performance “Revolution. Two marks in rotation” as part of Performa 11.* Tuesday, November 8, 6:30-7pm (sharp)

• With a working relationship that spans more than 6 years, MPA and Amapola Prada present their first-ever public collaboration. Using materials that include cinderblocks and plate glass, as well as their own bodies, they will seek the edges of antagonism, permissibility, and collaborative movement. The remnants of their performance will be on view in the gallery until the close of the exhibition.

MPA (b. 1980) is a feminist and exhibitionist following a living art practice. Her solo and collaborative works focus on performance often in combination with photography, film, text and sculpture. Enriched with ritual, these acts service a political exercise of the body stimulating questions for participation, resistance and the intimacy between both. Her work has been presented in New York by the Whitney Museum of American Art, Art in General, The Kitchen, Larissa Goldston Gallery, Higher Pictures, and Movement Research; in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Pilot TV; in London at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, Zendai MoMA in Shanghai, and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca in Mexico. MPA lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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