ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an identity alchemist.
Before we exist, the world creates us and assigns us value, purpose, and worth.
But I believe everything is anything,
Including ourselves,
If we dare to deconstruct it.
If we dare to re-create it.
I blur the lines between observer and performer, self and other My work is a double-sided mirror – part memoir, part social examination, forcing the viewer to confront their sense of self, perception of others, and the role they play in perpetuating preconceived notions and judgements. It is a collaborative inquiry. The requirement: reflection. An assessment of self and what we believe to be true. My art is how I live. I’ve turned my body into an organic sculpture and begun living life as an experiment in art. My work is documentation of this process of creating and counter-creating manifested in experiential experiments investigating meaning-making, creation of social realities, and internalized senses of self. A manifesto of freedom, this process of meaning-making and self-actualizing.
I’ll invite you into my mind palace to witness my unraveling, to witness my rebuilding I offer myself as a case study
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lue “LIKETHEHIGHWAY” Khoury is a gender-fluid Palestinian-Greek American conceptual artist and writer whose work blurs myth and memoir. Believing creation is a means of identity alchemy, LIKETHEHIGHWAY draws from their life as source material, becoming the architect of their own narrative as a means of reclaiming their bodily value, meaning, purpose, and work. Their philosophies and art practice have gained international recognition, being featured in Ada Søby’s forthcoming film “The Blank Canvas”, on iHeartRadio, and through an invitation to present in Dread Scott’s All African Peoples Consulate during the 2024 Venice Biennale.
© Helena Khoury