This too shall pass: performance
Ashe.
Untitled (Dynamic Action No. 2 - Live), 2023
Decommissioned haulage sling, crane hooks, chain, male-identifying person (naked), male-identifying person (clothed), 30mins 20 minutes.
Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch, 2025
This too shall pass by Ashe is a performance installation that examines the erosion of human connection in contemporary society.
At the heart of the work is a meditation on care, loss, and the struggle to retain humanity in a system that prioritises documentation over lived experience. This too shall pass asks: what remains when intimacy is stripped away, when the archive becomes the only proof of existence? How do we reclaim identity beyond the structures that seek to define and contain us?
Visitors are invited to attend the live performance component of the installation.
Performance dates:
Wednesday 30 April 2025
12:00PM - 12:30PM
Saturday 10 May 2025
2:00PM - 2:30PM
Please note that the opening event contains life model nudity.
About the artist
Ashe’s practice fuses live performance with the readymade incorporating photography, sculpture, text and video. This results in poetic and evocative (sometimes provocative) installations that explore the politics of identity, belonging, and marginalisation. This transdisciplinary approach to artmaking draws from Ashe’s personal history and experience, questioning our (broken) social systems and what it means to seek a safe place to (be)long in contemporary society.
