Lifting the Sweetness, 2015, Grace Exhibition Space and Gallery, NY, NY
"In a feat of ritualistic calisthenics that investigated survival and female empowerment, Kledia Spiro convinced us that there is a very clear, totemic connection between weightlifting melons, folk dance, and Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts." - Hyperallergic Magazine
Text by Grace-Yvette Gemmell
Illustrations by Erica Cassill
The Sphinx Returns at Grace Exhibition Space & Gallery in New York City was a 4-month performance series curated by Whitney V. Hunter. "The Sphinx Returns is a curated series of performance art and contemporary performance which looks at the artist as the myth maker and performance art as the mythology of our time setting the course for a history of the future." - Whitney V. Hunter
Photo credit: © 2015 Miao Jiaxin
http://hyperallergic.com/255695/sketches-from-a-carnivalesque-weekend-of-brooklyn-performance-art/