19th March 2023. Mother’s Day. Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
This body of work explores the complexities of women’s roles within caregiving and the societal expectations that bind them.
As part of an interactive performance, Lebrusan invites others to join her in ripping dolls apart on Mother’s Day, rejecting the stereotypical ideals of motherhood. Within the performance, a two-channel video shows a blade cutting the heads of dolls, further dismantling societal ideals of motherhood, femininity, and care. Elsewhere in the body of work, a photograph depicts a bejewelled woman’s hand butchering a lamb’s head, challenging the idea of women’s passivity. Together, these works invite reflection on the roles women are expected to play, while offering a space for both personal and collective empowerment.
Beheaded & Quartered Performance
Participatory Performance. 19th March 2023. Mother’s Day. Hang, Drawn and Quartered Exhibition. Standpoint Gallery, London
This participatory performance appropriates these visual words to provoke and question women’s entanglement with caring responsibilities. The artist gives permission to herself and to other women in the audience to go against stereotypes and rip apart the bodies of dolls in an act of liberation from caring duties on mother’s day.