Eddie Peake: The Pervert

Eddie Peake is a London artist who works with performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture, sound and installation. Through exhibition projects, he addresses autobiographical and self-identity themes, often emphasising the relationship between the audience and the artwork, the viewer and the viewed. He explores the implicit drama within relationships, reflecting on the impact of desire, sexuality, socio-political and cultural constructions, as well as psychological states such as depression.

The Pervert is a performance built on choreographic patterns of dance and sound, inviting self-reflection on states such as depression, psychosis, obsession and desire. The piece is performed by a group of gold-painted nude dancers and a narrator playing the character “Eddie Peake”, and structured as a non-linear narrative, orchestrated orchestrated from a soundscape live mixed by Eddie Peake.

The Pervert forms part of the programme for the second edition of Fogo Fátuo.

Photographs by Renato Cruz Santos