Slicked with oil and lit by microwave buzz, this ugly-beautiful piece by acclaimed performance artists—Latai Taumoepeau and Mirabelle Wouters—upends endless struggles of everyday expectation.

Steel bedframes dangle and scrape. Toxins ooze and whitegoods clank. In the world of Exposure, the ageing female body is lain bare as a site of force and resilience as the duo submit themselves to an increasingly surreal states of material force and environmental instability.

Exposure is part of the inaugural Australian Dance Biennale, curated and hosted by RISING.