#yeniynan

Nacimiento I, 1979 from #YeniyNan https://www.instagram.com/p/CeSuFjuN6-8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Yeni y Nan Transfiguración elemento tierra: Yeni 1983 Two-channel u-matic VHS transferred to digital video, color 8:34 min. The theme of birth and origin is a constant in the work of Yeni y Nan, conceived as a cycle that begins before birth-women and amniotic fluid-and after it-body and earth. The performance Transfiguración elemento tierra took place on October 2, 1983, at Sala Mendoza in Caracas. The artists, their faces covered in mud, installed two monitors that displayed in real time the mud drying: neither of them blinked during the extended process. To prepare for the action, Yeni y Nan trained in from of conscious meditation called Tratak, which involves staring at an focal point. In front of the monitors they installed two structures on which they performed different actions, such as lying down and smearing mud on each other’s bodies. Mud her acts as an apology for skin and body; between geography, landscape, and body; and between earth and body.