MOMENTUM AiR / LAGOS Berlin
ARTIST RESIDENCY
#7: IRMA SOFIA POETER
OPEN STUDIO
NEW MAN, A WOMAN’S GAZE
With Live Performance:
It’s a Girl! Opening one door and closing another
Artist Residency Presentation by Irma Sofia Poeter
30 September 2023 @ 6 – 9pm, Performance 8pm
@ MOMENTUM-LAGOS
Kunstquartier Bethanien, rm 134
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin
Irma Sofía Poeter is a Mexican American artist who has lived on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border. For her Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS, Poeter brought a selection of recent works, entitles NEW MAN, A WOMAN’S GAZE, to present in dialogue with new work created in Berlin. “It’s a GIRL! Opening one door and closing another” is closely related to the “New Man” series – a body of work that explores the possibility of deconstructing hegemonic masculinity and opts for alternative masculinities in which ways of being and existing in the world stand out differently. With the performance “It’s a GIRL!”, Poeter starts to imagine the deconstruction of that hegemonic masculinity in women. How can we alter, transform, recreate this structure? As more women enter and thrive in this vertical and patriarchal system, we are just conforming and settling into the same system we are revolting from. Who is this New Woman that embraces both her masculine and feminine and projects that balance into the creation of a new and harmonious world? These are some of the topics Poeter explores during her Artist Residency at MOMENTUM-LAGOS.