P_A_C wore matching outfits for 91 days as part of a research into how one’s mirror image influences one’s performance of self. In the work Who Wore It Best Hashtagluckybitches, P_A_C acknowledges their personal position as white, female and privileged consumers and via fragmented woven narratives they address the rich relationships of the materiality.
LUCKY
Everything in life is luck, or so we’ve heard. If you work hard, you will succeed—you just need to wait for your big break and play your cards right. Success once realized is often passed off as lucky coincidence. But what if you can’t even get a seat at the casino table?
These narratives of fortune actively render historical and structural oppression invisible in physical, digital, and spiritual spaces. LUCKY questions the role of luck as a cultural myth that explains and normalizes privilege. We propose to examine the ways this dulls movements of resistance and maintains the status quo, while still honoring in luck the practices of self preservation and play.
With a focus on queer and feminist practices, the project is composed of an exhibition, performances, panels, and workshops playing with and challenging this lottery that permeates what is already inscribed onto our bodies, our neighborhoods, and our browser histories.
Gallery:
https://archiv.ngbk.de/en/projekte/lucky/