Madrid, Spain – November โ22, โข2025 – Performance artist Angรฉlicaโค Liddell delivered โคwhat many are calling her most devastating work to date, “Seppuku,” โขat a premiere this morning, leaving audiences profoundly unsettled. The piece, characterized by stark vulnerability โฃand โฃaโค confronting physicality, culminated in Liddell addressingโค theโค crowd with a chillingly direct โstatement: “You โare notโค understanding me.”
Liddell, known forโค a decades-long exploration of the boundaries between art and life, and a willingness to subject her ownโ body to extreme conditions inโค her โperformances,โ presented a work โฃsteepedโฃ in themes of decayโ and sacrifice. The performance reportedly โfeatured Liddell appearing onstage nude, her body โvisibly marked by theโ passage of time-aโ intentional aesthetic choice reflecting โher โฃlong-held artistic and ethical โstance.This stance, she โhas previously articulated, centers on a complete self-implication in any act โof creation or destruction, extending even to self-harm as aโ formโค of artistic โขcompletion.
Witnesses described a palpableโข sense of unease throughout the performance, heightenedโค by an almost imperceptible but pervasive feelingโ of a disturbingโค presence, likenedโ to “a very black bug fromโ another world”โฃ – a recurring motif in Liddell’s work. โThe performance concluded as dawn broke โon a frigid morning, intensifying the โขdiscomfort and leaving a lasting impression on those present.The work’s core message,โฃ however, remains โelusive โคto many, โคprompting Liddell’s final, stark pronouncement to the audience.
