Marla Bendini

Marla Bendini created her persona in 2007 as an amalgamation between art and life, to explore multiple  liminal  identities  and  fluidity  in  perspectives. Her multidisciplinary approach  towards  this  amalgamation  has  become  a  signature  form  of  hypervisibilty, using  the  existing  politicized  body  as  a  catalyst  and  vehicle  for  further  discourse. She seeks to  both  engage  and  disarm  audiences  and  to  bridge  the  present  to  what  she envisions to be an inevitable trans/post-human condition. Her first self-titled exhibition Marla. (2008) was presented in a transsexual bar in Pattaya, Thailand. Sponsored by  Fridae.com,  Asia’s  largest  LGBT  portal,  she  presented Conversations  between  father  and  son  (2010),  a  multimedia  installation-performance supported by The Substation Gallery, Singapore. Since then, she has been very active in Singapore’s queer and cultural scene, organising and participating in numerous group exhibitions and  performance  art  festivals  such  as  Future  of  Imagination  and  R.I.T.E.S.

Her last  solo  exhibition  I’m Nervous,  presented  by  Grey  Projects  was  organised  in conjunction  with  the  10th  edition of IndigNation, Singapore’s longest running LGBT festival. She has  performed  and  exhibited  in  Singapore,  Malaysia,  Thailand,  Macau,  Sweden, Spain and the United States of America. =See also=

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This article was written by Roy Tan.