LEGX88 explores the theme of the female body's exposure through a choreographic action intersecting visual and performing arts. The work originates from research into beauty contests, particularly “leg beauty contests”, where legs are evaluated on criteria like shape, length, and tone, often obscuring the participants' faces. Through a queer-feminist lens, the artist shifts the gaze from the face to the lower limbs, investigating postures and movements as places of resistance and reappropriation. The choreography thus becomes a political act, capable of creating new imaginaries and rewriting Other bodies.

Natalia Di Cosmo, an Italian artist and choreographer, was born in San Giovanni Rotondo, Apulia, in 1996. She currently lives and works in Milan and Venice.

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LEGX88 raziskuje temo izpostavljanja ženskega telesa s koreografsko akcijo, ki prepleta vizualne in performativne umetnosti. Delo izvira iz raziskovanja lepotnih tekmovanj, zlasti »lepotnih tekmovanj za noge«, kjer se te ocenjujejo na podlagi meril, kot so oblika, dolžina in ten, pri čemer se pogosto zakrije obraz udeleženk. Umetnica skozi kvir-feministično lečo prestavi pogled z obraza na spodnje okončine, raziskuje drže in gibe kot mesta odpora in reapropriacije. Koreografija tako postane politično dejanje, ki ustvarja nove imaginarije in preoblikuje Druga telesa.

Natalia Di Cosmo, italijanska umetnica in koreografinja, se je rodila v San Giovanniju Rotondi v Apuliji leta 1996. Trenutno živi in ​​dela med Milanom in Benetkami.