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Viborg: Grzeszykowska

February 7, 2015 - May 3, 2015

Aneta Grzeszykowska, Selfie

7.02-3.05 2015

Viborgkunsthal, Viborg

 

Selfie lies between photography and sculp­ture. At its heart is the analysis of the process of self-​creation – one of the most fun­damen­tal themes of art and also a basic premise for the con­dition of the post-​medial society of today.

Grzeszykow­ska makes a radical turn in the direc­tion of the grotesque, creating star­tling sculp­tural charades using frag­ments of her own body, modeled in pig­skin and exhibited on smooth leather back­grounds. Her selfie takes on an uncanny quality as she creates a self-​portrait out of many parts. She treats cor­poreality, sen­suality and auto-​eroticism with black humor, which trans­forms the aesthetic experience into a strug­gle with basic existen­tial emotions. Her refined com­positions resem­ble the ter­rifying props of a horror film set. As in the clas­sics of this genre, death imitates life, while life – the artist’s hands visible in the photographs – is deadened as she gestures towards these imper­manent sculp­tural objects.

The frag­men­tation of the body, through the sur­real exer­cise of sculp­ting select organs and the use of tight photographic frames, leads to a leveling of the proces­ses of creation and destruc­tion. And those frag­ments of the female body are at the same time actual pieces of an animal’s flesh. Grzeszykow­ska takes apart her own image and manipulates the vision of her body in various ways, citing, for exam­ple, the themes inherent in the work of Alina Szapocz­nikow. She per­sists approaching the radical and jar­ring asser­tion that self-​creation is but another, fal­lible means of strug­gling with the mortal nature of the body.

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February 7, 2015
End:
May 3, 2015
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Viborg kunsthal
Riddergade 8
Viborg, 8800 Denmark
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