MARGOT SAMEL at Kendall Koppe, Glasgow, UK, OCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Margot Samel presented a solo exhibition by Narcissister at Kendall Koppe, Glasgow.

Narcissister
October 12 - November 16, 2024
Margot Samel at Kendall Koppe
36-38 Coburg St, Glasgow, UK

“Margot Samel is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Narcissister at Kendall Koppe, Glasgow. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with both galleries and in the UK. Presenting a series of masks and collages, the exhibition showcases Narcissister’s repertoire of self-modulation, representation, and reconfiguration through the methods of performance and assemblage.

The central focus of Narcissister’s practice is negotiating self-determination against the stereotypes of race, gender, and sexuality present in dominant society. With her masks– plastic reconfigurations of a Los Angeles wig display head designed by Verna Doran in 1965–Narcissister deploys humor and spectacle to reflect on the constructed nature of femininity and sexuality. Wearing her masks during performances, such as Every Woman, performed at the opening evening of the exhibition, the artist references burlesque dancing and the strip tease as models where desire is located in the ideological assumptions of the subject’s viewer, rather than their subjectivity itself.”
–Emily Small