INFLUENCERS: In Conversation with artist Marla Bendini
"My painting process is often a form of divination, a backdoor access to gain insight into a question or situation."
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We often talk about art as a reflection of the zeitgeist, whether is it representing a social movement or a commentary of the current happenings. For Marla Bendini, it is an extension of her thoughts and feelings about our society but more importantly, she hopes that viewers could become introspective and discover meanings that resonate with them?art is, after all, a personal venture.
Ahead we have a chat with Marla Bendini, who is part of the INFLUENCERS series of artists, presented at Alliance Française de Singapour. She takes us through her experience as being a trans-artist and the struggles the community faces in getting the recognition they deserve from our society.
You grew up in Singapore, in a difficult environment, and faced questions about your own gender identity at an early age. When did you become Marla Bendini and tell us about your first steps as an artist"
I was in a performance of Fight Club: A Chorus (by POST THEATER) at the National Museum of Singapore in 2007 and we were working on a piece based on the novel and movie by Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher. There was a character called Marla Singer. So that?s where I got the name. My birth name is Bendini. When I started gender transitioning, I needed a femme name ...
The post INFLUENCERS: In Conversation with artist Marla Bendini appeared first on LUXUO.
We often talk about art as a reflection of the zeitgeist, whether is it representing a social movement or a commentary of the current happenings. For Marla Bendini, it is an extension of her thoughts and feelings about our society but more importantly, she hopes that viewers could become introspective and discover meanings that resonate with them?art is, after all, a personal venture.
Ahead we have a chat with Marla Bendini, who is part of the INFLUENCERS series of artists, presented at Alliance Française de Singapour. She takes us through her experience as being a trans-artist and the struggles the community faces in getting the recognition they deserve from our society.
You grew up in Singapore, in a difficult environment, and faced questions about your own gender identity at an early age. When did you become Marla Bendini and tell us about your first steps as an artist"
I was in a performance of Fight Club: A Chorus (by POST THEATER) at the National Museum of Singapore in 2007 and we were working on a piece based on the novel and movie by Chuck Palahniuk and David Fincher. There was a character called Marla Singer. So that?s where I got the name. My birth name is Bendini. When I started gender transitioning, I needed a femme name ...
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