“Marla Bendini” was created in 2007 as an amalgamation between art and life, to explore multiple liminal identities and fluidity in perspectives. Her multidisciplinary approach towards this amalgamation has become a signature form of hypervisibilty, using the existing politicized body as a catalyst and vehicle for further discourse. She seeks to both engage and disarm audiences and to bridge the present to what she envisions to be an inevitable trans/post-human condition.
Her first self-titled exhibition “Marla.” (2008) was presented in a transsexual bar in Pattaya, Thailand. Sponsored by Fridae.com, Asia’s largest LGBT portal, she presented "Conversations between father and son" (2010), a multimedia installation-performance supported by The Substation Gallery, Singapore. She exhibited and performed in Supermarket 2012, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, sponsored by Riksutställningar / Swedish Exhibition Agency.
SOLO EXHIBITION
The Substation
Gallery, Singapore | 13 – 22 May 2010
"Conversations between father and son"
La Bamba, Pattaya,
Thailand | 26 Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
"Marla."
GROUP EXHIBITION
Grey Projects, Singapore | 15 – 31 Aug 2013
No Approval, in conjunction with Indignation 2013
Goodman
Arts Centre, Singapore | 14 – 16 Dec 2012
transport: Madrid/Singapore
Factoría de
Arte y Desarrollo, Madrid, Spain | 23 November -13 December 2012
tranSport: Madrid / Singapore
Stockholm,
Sweden | 15 September 2012
Where Dreams Cross in conjunction
with Tempo Film Festival, film screening
Singapore
Contemporary Young Artists studio, Singapore | 17 – 31 Aug 2012
Some Nights Need an Introduction
Gagnef,
Sweden | 7 July 2012
Where Dreams Cross, film screening
The
Substation Gallery, Singapore | 6 – 18 May 2012
Handsome: IVSG
Your
Mother Gallery, Singapore | 12 Apr – 12 May 2012
Portraits of Defacement
Kulturhuset,
Stockholm, Sweden | 17 – 19 Feb 2012
Queer Creatures – Supermarket 2012, Stockholm Independent Art Fair
Goodman
Arts Centre, Singapore | 21 – 29 Oct 2011
Image, Materiality and Space
Dahlia Gallery,
Singapore | 24 Nov – 24 Dec 2010
HIV: Show me the love
Dahlia Gallery,
Singapore | 8 – 17 April 2011
Azalea Beckons…
Chan Hampe Gallery,
Singapore | 1 – 10 Aug 2010
Rooftop Access for IndigNATION 6 – Singapore Pride Season
The attic @ My Art
Space, Singapore | 1 – 10 Aug 2010
Rooftop Access for IndigNATION 6 – Singapore Pride Season
DYMK, Singapore |
20 July – 20 Aug 2010
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