Name: Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival by Aubane Berthommé Martinez
Start: 2026-01-31T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-31T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Prinsengracht 526

Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival  by Aubane Berthommé Martinez

COKO SPACE

A live drawing session examining gendered care, domestic labor, and the weight of inherited roles

Prinsengracht 526

We are delighted to start the new year by inviting you to draw along side us at the first COKO Happening of 2026: Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival, a performance and live drawing session by Aubane Berthommé Martinez. Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival examines gendered care, domestic labor, and the weight of inherited roles. The work unfolds between ritual and rupture, beauty and exhaustion, intimacy and obligation. Handcrafted costumes inspired by Mediterranean wedding aesthetics become sites of damage, touch, and repair. Through text fragments and audience participation, the performance exposes how care is learned, demanded, and endured. The audience is invited to interact in different ways, becoming at the same time voyeur and part of the unfolding of the work.The performance is accompanied by soundscapes created by Eve Bion. Audience note All drawing supplies will be provided. However, you are also welcome to bring your own canvas and painting materials. Please e-mail us at info@coko.amsterdam if you wish to reserve an easel, as the number is limited. Important timing information Doors will open at 8:00 PM. The performance will begin promptly at 8:30 PM. Please do not arrive BEFORE 8:00 PM or AFTER 8:30 PM. We look forward to welcoming you for this shared moment of presence, attention, and tension. About the artist Aubane Berthommé Martinez is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and curator. Her practice uses self representation and intersectional analysis to work through class, gender, labor, and Mediterranean heritage. Working across performance, text, photography, painting, ceramics, and fashion, she reclaims working class and queer aesthetics often dismissed as excessive or improper. Her body frequently becomes both subject and medium, allowing lived experience to confront systems of visibility, desire, and exploitation. Through humor, sensuality, and care, her work holds beauty and discomfort together rather than resolving them.

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