21.02.2011

Girls Toys

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"I like the idea of head detaching or even most of the body parts, which can be undoubtedly interpreted as a post-feministic womanish legs fetishism critique by contemporary consumer society with it’s propulsive mechanisms such as cinematography and advertisement industry, but itself remains visually attractive. 
  Very interesting series “Girls Toys”, from impersonal but still body, through composing clothes covered by carnal film, to peripheral requisites in respect of it’s carnal center. 
Narration is so quaint, it was built with paintings titles ( just imagine how much can you figure yourself…) 
Body fragmentation through advertisements, fetishism of this fragment, impersonality and values obliteration, painted with sweetmeat – lollipop colors,
It’s all very post – modernistic and absolutely interesting"
Katarzyna Cytlak about my project

Tears on the bench and Kenzo bag

Girls Toys


Blind Date

Last cigarette

fragments

Looking for aura

The project is about painting, distribution, digitalization, looking for 'aura', which might be lost in reproduced works. The term comes from Walter Benjamin's essay: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'. According to Benjamin artworks lose their 'aura', and what is interesting, he finds the process positive, while I am not so sure... In postmodern age our contact with art has changed distinctly. We can visit Louvre, while wearing pajamas and on the computer screen observe, with a zoom, pores on Mona Lisa's face. Art is more accessible, reproduced in million samples. Is it good or is it wrong? I do not know... I meditate on aura, which emanate from original work. Could we find it in reproduction? Is it essential? What happened to, what happens to painting? Does mass distributing of art generate profit or lost? How does this ancient medium function in 21st century?
Ewa Wróbel-Hultqvist