Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival by Aubane Berthommé Martinez

COKO Happenings: Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival
by Aubane Berthommé Martinez

COKO warmly invites you to the next COKO Happening, Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival, a still performance and live drawing session by Aubane Berthommé Martinez.

Seeking Venus, Nuptial Revival examines gendered care, domestic labor, and the weight of inherited roles. Standing motionless, the artist holds a tray that the audience may load or relieve, directly increasing physical strain and ethical tension. 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 interaction, the performance exposes how care is learned, demanded, and endured.

The performance is accompanied by soundscapes created by Eve Bion.

Audience note
All drawing materials will be provided. However, if you wish to keep your drawing, you are welcome to bring your own canvas or paper.

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.

Short Bio

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.