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Lisette Ros (1991) is a (conceptual) performance artist from Amsterdam.

In her work she challenges conventions, routine behavior and banal acts and questions their self-evidence. Starting point of her work is the confrontation with herself; questioning and challenging her own bodily conditioning, lust for control and daily routine. As performance artist Ros uses herself to provide audiences with the same confrontation as she undergoes herself, both in body and spirit. Ros poses questions by doing.

An important and relevant work is her ongoing research project into the Self and the identification process, titled the ‘My Self, …’ series. This series started by researching the well-known convention of “just being yourself.” But what does that actually mean and contain? For her it meant the start of an in-depth research into the Self and the identification process. Ros launched the series with ‘My Self, the Fetus’ (2015), which she still performs. The entire research series now counts up to four parts. Becoming aware of one’s conditioned body is a fundamental pillar in this respect. 

Her critical findings are shared in live performances, performance video art, as installations or whichever form is suited best for transferring the research results and forcing confrontation.

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© Photo: Edland Man (collaboration with Beau Battant)

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