‘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
Conceived and Performed by Zoe Simon
Art Direction, Costumes, Make-Up: Zoe Simon
Filmed by Tom Branwell
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.
For Tereza Buskova
‘The Baked Woman Of Doubice’, 2012
Directed by Tereza Buskova
Performers: Zoe Simon (The Baked Woman)
Music: Bela Emerson
Screenings include:
‘Reality Czech’, The Whitechapel Gallery, 2015
OPEN SOURCE Contemporary Arts Festival, Gillett Square, London 2015
‘Masopust’, 2010
Directed by Tereza Buskova
Performers: Zoe Simon, Joni Levinson, Eliska Kasparova, Pedro Pazeres
Composer Bela Emerson
Screenings include:
Article Gallery, Birmingham 2015
‘Spring Equinox’, 2009
Directed by Tereza Buskova
Performers: Zoe Simon (Ostara), Eliska Kasparova (Winter and Spring, Dancer), Honza Malik (Dancer)
Music by Bela Emerson
Screenings include:
‘A Tradition I Do Not Mean To Break’ , 176 / The Zabludowicz Collection, 2010
‘Forgotten Marriage’, 2008
Directed by Tereza Buskova
Performers: Zoe Simon (The Bride), Jaroslav Bartunek (The Groom)
Sound by Bela Emerson
Screenings include:
‘Rituals’ Jason Dodge/Tereza Buskova, curator Vincent Honore, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2008
‘Wedding Rituals’, 2007
Directed by Tereza Buskova
Sound by Bela Emerson
Performers: Zoe Simon (The Bride), Joni Levinson and Vangelis Legakis (The Suitors)
Screenings include:
The Great Exhibition RCA, Final Show, London, 2007
Ritual Abuse, Exterior Boys Hall, London, 2007
‘Slick 07’, Contemporary Art Fair, Paris, 2007
