FKA twigs unveiled a conceptual piece of performance art at Sotheby’s on Friday, the first of its kind to be shown at the 280-year auction house.
The 36-year-old singer has conceived this visual movement-based artwork called The Eleven with a rotating group of eleven ‘movers’ to perform the work.
twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett, calls the art a ‘movement project’ that involves these movers doing ritualised motions designed to improve one’s life.
These choreographed actions are meant to correspond to eleven different aspects of living.
The singer has had a busy summer with the release of her debut film The Crow in August and she is now gearing up for the arrival of her next album in January.
FKA twigs unveiled a new artwork today at London’s Sotheby’s auction house called The Eleven on Friday
twigs has choreographed this movement-based work and it is performed by a rotation of eleven ‘movers’
The movements in the performance all correspond to eleven different aspects of living
‘It’s a very in-depth method that is based around 11 pillars in my life, which I feel are also pillars in a lot of people’s lives,’ she told the Financial Times.
Audiences at ‘The Eleven’ will be encouraged to incorporate the practice into their own lives.
The idea formed five years ago and finally came to be in her east London studio before being exhibited at Sotheby’s.
The piece is complemented by an exhibition of twigs’ sketchbooks, drawings, diaries and polaroids, alongside photographs by Jordan Hemmingway.
Hemmingway is twigs’ boyfriend who she revealed in a now deleted Instagram post in March 2023.
Twigs has since kept her relationship with the London-based photographer out of the public domain.
At the same time she was forming the idea for this work, twigs came to the end of an abusive relationship, according to her claims, with the Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf.
Her complaints of sexual battery, assault and infliction of emotional distress are going to be heard in a court in Los Angeles next month – LaBoeuf denies the allegations.
twigs posed in front of the sketchbooks, drawings, diaries and polaroids that are part of the exhibition at today’s unveiling
twigs’ boyfriend Jordan Hemmingway has contributed photographs to the art show on at Sothebys
twigs and her New Jersey-born boyfriend have been together for over a year and keep it private
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