Performance

Andrea Honsberg’s performances extend her studio practice into acts of presence and endurance. They transform personal emotion into public gesture, exposing the fragile border between sincerity and parody. Through carefully staged actions, she examines how the body carries memory, humour, and discomfort in equal measure.

Often grounded in everyday rituals, her performances translate private narratives into collective experience. Props and costumes borrowed from her sculptural practice become symbolic extensions of the self, at once protective and absurd. Duration, repetition, and silence are used as compositional tools, allowing tension to build through stillness as much as through movement.

By confronting spectators with moments that oscillate between control and collapse, Honsberg turns performance into a site of negotiation — between vulnerability and resistance, empathy and distance, the personal and the social.