Artist Vanessa Beecroft‘s latest performance piece (on show in Milan, Italy) has 20 black men–all African immigrants–with blackened faces, some barefeet, wearing black suits, sitting at a table resembling Da Vinci’s The Last Supper, and gorging meat for 3 hours:
“… the show is composed of two parts: a new performance ‘VB65′ created especially for this exhibition at the milan contemporary art gallery PAC and 4 video projections of performances and videos ‘VB48′, ‘VB54′, ‘VB61′ and ‘VB62′. ‘VB65′ is a performance of 20 african immigrants, only men, seated at a 12m long table, dining as if at a last supper, dressed formally, a few did not wear shoes, but all were wearing black dinner jackets, suits, eating chicken, brown bread, drinking water, without platters or silverware, in front of an audience of invited guests. the 20 hosts of the supper sat silently eating during the opening (for 3 hours) … “
Via designboom
