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Lili Reynaud-Dewar's Performance at Museion

exhibition · 2026-05-05

Lili Reynaud-Dewar opened Museion's 2017 exhibition season with her first Italian solo show, 'Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society.' The complex installation incorporates video, panels, and objects, exploring cultural, social, and emotional identity through 20th-century liberation movements and subcultures. Central themes include hip hop grills as status symbols and Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto. A performance during the opening night featured the artist alongside Ashley Cook and Hendrik Hegray.

Key facts

  • Lili Reynaud-Dewar was born in La Rochelle in 1975 and lives between Paris and Grenoble.
  • The exhibition is titled 'Teeth, Gums, Machines, Future, Society' and is based on an eponymous film.
  • This is Reynaud-Dewar's first solo show in Italy.
  • The installation includes video, panels, and objects.
  • Grills, dental decorations from hip hop culture, are used provocatively as status symbols.
  • The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway is a key reference.
  • A performance during the opening featured Ashley Cook and Hendrik Hegray.
  • The exhibition took place at Museion in Bolzano.

Entities

Artists

  • Lili Reynaud-Dewar
  • Ashley Cook
  • Hendrik Hegray
  • Donna Haraway

Institutions

  • Museion

Locations

  • La Rochelle
  • France
  • Paris
  • Grenoble
  • Bolzano
  • Italy

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