leesima, the orange veil, 2026, live performance, 6hr. © Alternative Space LOOP
Alternative Space LOOP presents a solo
exhibition 《the orange revile》 by
artist leesima, on view through June 20.
This exhibition presents three distinct
approaches to performance that work through how norms perceive and organize the
body, and how certain identities are constructed and sustained.
Moving across seemingly disparate systems
from shamanism to artificial intelligence, leesima summons the uncanny, where
fear and humor, disgust and fascination are intertwined.
In the exhibition, they document and share
a lived condition: being bisexual and living with an eating disorder in a world
that defines certain bodies and heterosexuality as the norm. Queer and
feminized bodies are caught in a double bind.
Once named, the subject is required to
prove itself, as definition and proof reinforce one another. leesima brings
this condition into a personal narrative, tracing how the individual is named,
defined, and still continues to slip away.
leesima, splitting legs, 2026, Performance © Alternative Space LOOP
Through the works, the artist moves away from relations with
others and turns toward the self. The layers of sensation inscribed in their
body reveal that the body is not only disciplined by the gaze of others, but
also learns to demand norms from itself.
leesima also attends to what remains after performance. Through
sound, text, and secondary forms of representation, they reconstruct
performance and ask what remains, and what disappears. This reveals the gap
between normative languages — the average, the ordinary, and the universally
accepted — and the sensations of an individual who slips beyond them.
The exhibition arrives at a question: How can a body that
exceeds the language and forms of normativity exist, remain, and be documented?
