‘Femme Cheval Performance / Starlet /
Lulu Goldman Deceased’, 2017
‘Model / Baby / Femme Cheval / Hysteric’, 2017
Conceived, Performed and Filmed by Zoe Simon
Costumes and make-up: Zoe Simon
Screenings: ‘Salomania’; joint exhibtion with Julia Colmenares at Hundred Years Gallery, 2017
As part of her pratice as a performance artist Zoe Simon takes on personas; here she is documented as a model, an adult baby who liked to suck a dummy and fall asleep, a female/ animal hybrid called Femme Cheval and an hysteric. By adopting these personas Zoe Simon is exploring her fascination with and a desire to create female characters who would traditionally be an object of fantasy.
‘Lulu Goldman Deceased: A Disturbing Case’, 2016
Conceived and Performed by Zoe Simon
Art Direction, Costumes, Make-Up: Zoe Simon
Filmed by Tom Branwell
Music: The Theme From Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
Screenings: ‘Salomania’; joint exhibition with Julia Colmenares at Hundred Years Gallery, 2017
Zoe Simon is filmed performing as her long-running persona Lulu Goldman Deceased: dead bunny girl and prostiute.
‘Change!’, 2016
Conceived and performed by Zoe Simon
Cinematography: Michele Cadei
Sound: Michele Cadei and Zoe Simon
Art Direction: Giulia Scrimeri
Hair and Make-Up: Luisa Ridge
Screenings: ‘Salomania’; joint exhibition with Julia Colmenares at Hundred Years Gallery, 2017
A meditation on semiotics and how the performer or model can be a vessel for the viewer’s desires and fantasies to the extent that two narratives run parallel: the actual and the imagined or hoped for…’Change’ draws on Zoe Simon’s experiences as a life model and peformer and her collaboration with Julia Colmenares.