Bodil Ouédraogo is a visual artist who explores the art of dressing up and its cultural surroundings in her work. During Rewire, she presents Framed Intimacy, a visual installation that combines sculpture, video, movement, and music composed by Bram Owusu. Informed by her Dutch and Burkinabe background, she is interested in the different cultural ideas of what constitutes identity. Taking West African sculptures as a starting point, the installation longs to express togetherness through material heirlooms. She does so by enlarging the sculptures, framing them, and wearing fragments of the sculptures in a performative way. By doing so, she shifts dynamics of how the sculptures are perceived and embodies the stories that are hidden in them. This results in a visual and auditory research about posing, bearing, and positioning yourself while bearing a longing to understand who went before us.  

The work is commissioned by artist-run space Das Leben am Haverkamp and Rewire as part of a long-term collaboration between the two platforms, facilitating space for experimental crossovers between fashion, performance art, and music.