‘Model / Baby / Femme Cheval / Hysteric’, 2016

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

Zoe Simon Film video artist Lulu Goldman Deceased A Distrubing Case Bunny Girl film Performance Artist Performance Art London

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

Zoe Simon Change Film Video Artist

Zoe Simon Film video artist Change film

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.