Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's 'I'm Mortality' Exhibition Explores Pandrogyny Through Blood, Surgery, and Alchemy

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's second solo show at Invisible Exports, 'Breyer P-Orridge I'm Mortality', presents an intuitive collection of works centered on the artist's body and the concept of pandrogyny. The exhibition includes 'Blood Sacrifice', a video featuring two Chanel N°5 bottles filled with the artist's and late wife Lady Jaye's blood, displayed on a Tibetan prayer scarf. Another piece, 'Alchemical Wedding', contains mixed hair, nails, and skin from both partners in glass vessels. The show features sculptural elements like 'Spiral (Thee Source)', combining a medieval key and a Psychic cross, and a large Nagar-inspired begging tin referencing a healing experience in Nepal. Photographic works include 'Coagularis', showing the artist with a Jackson Pratt Pump, and 'Blood Bunny', a wooden rabbit soaked with blood and ketamine over ten years. Genesis discusses pandrogyny as a personal and sociopolitical quest to erase gender binaries, influenced by experiences with cosmetic surgeries performed alongside Lady Jaye to create a combined identity. The artist references inspirations like Orlan and William S. Burroughs, noting the recurring significance of the number 23. A film about their relationship, 'The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye' directed by Marie Losier, has been released globally. The exhibition ran at Invisible Exports' Lower East Side gallery in New York in 2011, with the interview originally published in SFAQ issue 9 in May–July 2012.