Fish Gallery 4 presents a series of photographs out of an exhibition of Ms Kuciak "Sexy sexy." I looked there today, encouraged by a photo in the "Gazette" (the category of soft porn) and as little text revelatory exhibition of Gregory Józefczuka announcing that up to the intriguing ("The artist shoots himself in provocative bikini to ironizować the universal behavior of women and use the body as a tool for selling goods ").
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looks like this love affair between the artist and mass culture? Well, it takes quite a popular strategy wdziewania enemy masks (costume popular culture) - the intricate dresses with lingerie sex shop, painted eyes and pretends like they do with the calendar girls, pouting lips, placing his hand on her hip, lifting the chin. All those studied gestures to be a clear signal to the male race: that's me, the embodiment of your passions, padajcie my feet, because I have power over you. Kuciak uses this range of poses, gestures and malaise min it one's own body. In the photographs you can see a deliberate artificiality, the model is not the girl with the "Hustler". Pink background emphasizes conventionality of the situation. Everything here is unmatched, and theater, in roles such as jumping, taking a positive every time the ethereal nymphs and sensual femme fatale. Only the first picture has a different connotation. The artist looks like a pierrot, with sad eyes and drooping hands helplessly. Sam studied helplessness.
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on all eight photographs is as dressed in white underwear with fluff, is tied around his neck like a ribbon manetowska Olimpia. Individual shots are different setting body and mime. Kuciak explores the area of \u200b\u200bvisual culture dominated by images of women exposing their sexuality bezpruderyjnie that would not only become the target audience as an incentive in attracting the viewer's attention (commonly known that the half-naked woman can successfully advertise both tights and a car or cleaning). The artist is trying to cope with the representation of the female body in media, on a test method known to us.
The text for the exhibition comes to the formulation that the result of work Kuciak (which is both photographer and model) are not self-portraits in the ordinary sense of the word. My question to the superintendent timid - which are then self-portraits in the usual sense?
Józefczuk notes in "Gazeta" that the photographs Kuciak "admit a first and describe something, and, secondly, those assertions, expressing the attitude of critical commentary." Spieszyłabym not with such a statement a priori. Last year the Polish art show that the blade of subversion extermination as frivolous abuse of discretion and dilution of the construction works of this technique. How easy it is justify his action intentional displacement of meanings, wicked Demystification, deconstruction of the elusive at first glance but full of depth. Call it irreverent work. I have the impression that the object of criticism operations have become so shallow and so far digest themselves, that in principle it is difficult to see any signs of irony here, and critical judgments. Reasons for the actions of visual artists, "an ironic commentary consumerist culture of beauty and terror" (do not quote one in particular, I give curatorial threadbare cliche) is empty, anachronistic and wyrzygania. Wtórność, wtórność ...
history of women in the martial arts with the objectification of their own sex is long and rich, from an ax attack on the "Venus of the mirror," subversive activities by Valie Export, Carolee Schneemann, Marina Abramovic. I am far from believing that it is enough that all of us to przejadło. On the contrary, the subject is so vivid that women - a decade of experience richer feminism - uprzedmiotowiają voluntarily and, paradoxically, believe that that's their strength (see magazine for young, liberated women) - and this I think refers to Danuta Kuciak in his series of photographs. But doing it in a way which is already well passed, brings nothing new to discuss, and subwersywny tenor has no power of destruction. Then there are two niewykluczające the issues, poor work on an important topic.
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reminds me of another construction, which applies to virtually the same issue. "What the fuck are you staring at!" (What are you looking whore!), Anetta Mona video Chişy was shown on screens in the outdoor space of the city in the German-Romanian art festival Spaţiul Public Bucuresti timidly contests (fueling?) Kuciak, Mona Chisa brings the same work - is aggressive, vulgar and does not spare the resources. Struggling zz ubiquitous, insistent gaze, rebels against him, shouting to a potential audience: "What are you looking at? What are you looking here at all? "Her desperation is the kind of explosiveness, comparable to the creation of the virus in the system and relations of power, which lacked the correct photos in the Lublin Zachęta.
"Sexy, sexy, Danuta Kuciak
gallery Lublin Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts Fish 4
Curator: Ernest Malik
April 22 - May 8, from Tuesday to Saturday. 15.00-19.00
