However legitimate her background in architecture and jewelry design may be, Bianca Censori is first and foremost known for her distinctive, revealing fashion choices and for being Ye’s—né Kanye West’s—wife and muse. On Dec. 12 and 13, Censori debuted BIO POP (The Origin), the first in what will be a series of seven performance art pieces spread out over the next several years.
BIO POP took place at an unnamed venue in Seoul, South Korea; Censori’s website has a video recording of the austere, unnerving performance. The 14-minute event began with Censori, clad in a maroon bodysuit, preparing something at a sleek kitchen island, the kind you’d find in a high-end apartment. At the 9½-minute mark, she gets on her knees in front of the oven, removes a red-domed object, places it on a rolling bar cart, and robotically walks towards an inconspicuous white curtain at stage right.
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The last few minutes of the video reveal a truly creepy set of furniture intertwined with female bodies. It’s unclear—from the video documentation, at least—if these are real women or mannequins. In any case, they look like Censori dupes, with the same straight black hair and bangs, blank expressions, and skintight bodysuits (though theirs are nude rather than maroon), their bodies contorted to fit within each Censori-designed piece of furniture.
The two chairs, two tables, chandelier, and bar car all look like they were made from discarded mobility devices or prosthetics. The stainless steel table and chair legs resemble the feet of crutches or walkers, with cream-colored Plexiglas and shearling elements for comfort (“comfort”).
According to Artnet, a line of jewelry available on Censori’s website launched the same day as the BIO POP performance and—with names like “scalpel bracelet” and “speculum cuff”—is similarly inspired by medical devices.
In an emailed press statement, Censori says that “BIO POP stages the body inside the language of the domestic” and that “[e]ach piece is not passive support but an apparatus that moulds the body, turning comfort into confinement and domesticity into architecture.”
ARTnews reached out regarding Censori’s forthcoming performance art plans. As of now series 2 and 3—titled Confessional (The Witness) and Bianca is My Doll Baby (The Idol)—are both scheduled for 2026.
