The multidisciplinary artist coalesces visual art, performance, and dance to investigate the way in which the body is represented and treated as an archive.

Photo: Diana Oliveira

Her work then critically examines, disrupts, and re-negotiates her findings, directly engaging with the representation and subjectification of women’s bodies while activating them as sites and agents for socio-political change. In doing so she creates languages of resistance and spaces to expose and elude systems of power.

Blake, who lives and works in Amsterdam, received an MA in Fine Art from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2007) and was an artist-in-residence at WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2020+2021), the Delfina Foundation, London (2016), Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2014–15), and Fondazione Antonio Ratti with Yvonne Rainer (2015). Her work has been presented at numerous locations, such as: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Holland Festival (Amsterdam), 1st Riga Biennial (Riga, Latvia), BOZAR (Brussels), Performatik19 (Brussels), IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), British Museum / Block Universe Performance Festival (London), TENT (Rotterdam), ExtraCity (Antwerp) and La Triennale di Milano XXI (Milan). She is the winner of the Dutch art prize, Prix de Rome 2021.