My stilleto heel is a cocktail pick, 2022
performance evening
presented at PINK Manchester

performed by Alex Aamer, Rachel Li, Nathan Taylor and Hattie Thomas
pictures by Cinthia Baseler

“At the exhibition’s closing event, a performance was in the offing. A troupe of performers activated Egelie’s 3D printed mask-works, removing them from their floor and wall mounts, wearing them with choreographed movement and pose. Their face adornments flamboyant enough in colour and design to overrule the well-executed but humble 3D printed construction and this provided a double mirage: their method of construction implies a level of artifice and functionlessness.

Egelie’s use of materials in this way is an attempt to go against institutional expectations and to subvert the kinds of rigid frameworks that allow non-conforming people to be overlooked or ignored. This is a playful way of tackling the serious subject of representation and identity. “

Text from James Harper’s review of Grey Area at PINK, Manchester