Assuming roles of both performer and director in "Gestures", Wilke explores her own face as artistic material. Whether kneading her skin into misshapen contortions or enacting stereotypical poses, she stages a fluid, continuous sequence of actions in front of the camera. Her performance calls attention to and deconstructs familiar representations of women, as well as encourages the viewer's personal or cultural associations with these gestures while also reclaiming agency over such depictions as her own.
Hannah Wilke
Director
Public Speaking70%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Directed by John Ford70%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
The Class of ‘9271%
Report61%
Love, Marilyn66%
A Plastic Ocean75%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
My Mom Jayne80%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Don't F*#% With John Wick76%
Maternal Instinct72%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Looking for Richard68%
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present73%
Above Majestic73%
Love, Antosha74%
