Bianca Censori conducts bizarre interview using masked stand-in to answer for her: ‘backlash isn’t a goal’

Bianca Censori has conducted a bizarre interview using a body-double to answer questions, saying she doesn’t “seek backlash” with her almost-naked outfits.

Conducted by Interview magazine’s Taylore Scarabelli while Censori is seated alongside another woman wearing a latex Bianca Censori mask, Kanye’s West’s notoriously provocative wife stays silent throughout the interaction.

The Censori stand-in then answers all of the journalist’s questions for the Melbourne-born architect.

Censori look-alikes, which feature in hers BIO POP art performance in South Korea last week, are “not copies” of Censori, her stand-in tells Scarabelli.

“They’re spillages,” they said.

“They’re what happens when a public image detaches from the person who animates it.

“This is not a confession of feeling trapped. This is an act of repossession. She is reclaiming the unauthorised clones. She’s not trapped in her image. She’s multiplying it until the original becomes myth.”

Censori has become renowned for her revealing, almost-naked outfits, but her doppelganger says her “end goal is self-expression”, and not to draw attention on social media to her walking a thin line of full nakedness.

“Backlash isn’t a goal, but it is revealing, it shows where cultural sensitivities sit and what people are unable or unwilling to name directly,” the clone said.

“(Bianca) doesn’t seek praise or backlash, but she pays attention to how both form and circulate...they’re two sides of the same perceptual mechanism, and the contrast between them is useful.”

In BIO POP, Censori used the latex-clad doppelgangers as furniture for her performance which she claimed was a commentary on domesticity, according to her interview clone, and insists any label of ‘fetish culture’ on their outfits was self-imposed by the audience.

“Bianca is interested in perspective and collective experience. Domesticity is one of them,” the clone said.

“The body suit is the closest thing to skin. It removes individuality and turns the body into a surface. What people read into that fetish, control, power, belongs to them.”