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Breathe Harder

Date uploaded: July 16, 2014

Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents Breathe Harder, a new site-specific performance by Helen Benigson AKA Princess Bellsize Dollar, on Saturday the 2nd of August 2014.

Breathe Harder explores ideas of weight, body and sculpture as five female weightlifters lift weights near Barbara Hepworth's, The Family of Man (1970). Within the public context of YSP, the performers take on a sculptural presence as visitors watch them at all angles in a theatrical spectacle both fictional and absurd.

Born in 1985 and based in London, Benigson is a video artist and rapper whose interdisciplinary practice includes performance, video installation, printmaking, text, sound and music.
For more information about what's on at the Park this summer, including exhibitions by Ursula von Rydingsvard and Ai Weiwei click here.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014.

Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed, 2013. Video still courtesy the artist

Travelling to Africa via a Machine Called a Sunbed, 2013. Video still courtesy the artist