FLUID TRANSITIONS A collaborative by lilibeth cuenca rasmussen and shone puipia

"Fluid Transitions" is a new performance work by artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen in collaboration with fashion designer Shone Puipia that reflects on existential matters in a time of significant paradigm shifts where chaos is vital to make a new order. Delivering a selection of original text accompanied by recorded music and donning an elaborate costume doubling as her set, Cuenca Rasmussen’s performance bears with it multiple characters that shift between an activist, a preacher, a sorcerer, a queen, queer and a wonder woman. The elaborate and intricate costumes created by Puipia, consisting of four layers, serve as markers in the identity shifts. As a new character is revealed, Cuenca Rasmussen will be stripping them off like the Russian Babushka dolls.

"Fluid Transitions" marries the worlds of performance, visual arts and fashion. It was originally conceived as a process-based artistic intervention that challenged the collaborating artists to respond to the works by Southeast Asian female artists like Pinaree Sanpitak, Pacita Abad, Mella Jaarsma, Brenda Fajardo and Fatimah Chik on display at the National Gallery Singapore.

Photographer: Kanrapee Chokpaiboon

Digital Technician & Retoucher: Jeerakorn Khomsanoi