{"id":10997,"date":"2025-12-15T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/bianca-censori-restrains-womens-bodies-with-contortionist-furniture\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:49:13","slug":"bianca-censori-restrains-womens-bodies-with-contortionist-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/bianca-censori-restrains-womens-bodies-with-contortionist-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianca Censori restrains women’s bodies with contortionist furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Designer Bianca Censori, the wife of the rapper Ye \u2013 formerly known as Kanye West<\/a>, has created a series of tables and chairs in which the female body becomes part of the furniture<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The pieces, with crutches for legs and fluffy cylindrical bolsters reminiscent of sex furniture, were conceived for Censori’s debut performance art piece Bio Pop<\/a>, staged in Seoul<\/a>, South Korea, at the end of last week.<\/p>\n

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Bianca Censori has created a series of furniture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strategically placed openings and holes cut out of the flesh-coloured tabletops were designed to hold the female body in various contorted positions.<\/p>\n

For the 13-minute Bio Pop performance<\/a>, these gaps were filled in by masked doppelgangers of the designer herself, all wearing identical wigs and skin-tight latex bodysuits by Japanese designer Shigenari Kido<\/a> to create the impression of being entirely nude.<\/p>\n

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The collection includes tables and chairs designed to hold women’s bodies in contorted positions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Censori, who\u00a0gained internet infamy for her less-is-more approach to clothing<\/a> \u2013 notoriously prompting accusations of indecent exposure<\/a> at the 2025 Grammy Awards \u2013 says she designed the furniture to illustrate how our homes and the objects within them work to reinforce wider societal power structures.<\/p>\n

“The home moulds the body, the spirit and its roles,” the designer proclaims on her website<\/a>. “Positions learned in private are worn in public.”<\/p>\n

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There is also a chandelier to complete the dining room set-up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the majority of the Bio Pop performance, the furniture remained hidden behind a curtain, while off to the right, Censori mimed baking a cake over the course of 10 minutes, entirely silent but for a classical score composed by her husband especially for the occasion.<\/p>\n

It’s not until the last three minutes, as the designer wheels over the cake on a matching bar cart, that the curtain pulls back to reveal a dining room set, including tables, chairs and even a chandelier, each holding a motionless female figure.<\/p>\n