ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice is based on exploring the relationship between the phenomenon of clothing and the body in the context of modern society and the beauty industry, analyzing issues of identity and aging through the prism of gender identity in accordance with feminist and socially engaged practices.
Working with discarded objects is the same as working with experience, emotions and memory.
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Clothing, dressing, applying makeup and beauty products are the stage equipment we use to present ourselves and our role in everyday life. Such "stage aids" are increasingly becoming a metaphor for a new social order, a new identity structured by the influence of Western consumer capitalism. With the idea of the body as a social sensation, I want to examine the possibilities of incorporating my own body into clothing items.
How to erase boundaries between the body and clothes? Where does one begin and other one ends? The resulting installations were partially or completely in direct contact with my body. The material which I use is most often everyday discarded material of beauty products (used wipes, swabs, face masks, gloves, tights, etc.) that is collected by the household in drawers, closets, trash cans... pieces of life, pieces of the environment. Such material inevitably contains prints of use that primarily testify to the clichéd view of female beauty in consumer society, referring to the urban culture of rejection (throwaway culture).
Sculptures composed of these intimate, bodily prints form three-dimensional objects of fragmented body images. By exhibiting such objects, I provide the observer with an insight into the everyday rituals and intimate moments of creation. Through the transformation of discarded objects of consumer culture, I seek to point out the hyperconsumption, pliability, and instability of the body. I use recycled objects as material in production, which results in the construction of a new object, preserving the identity of the old one. Sculptures created by sewing and joining used industrial materials are fragile creations of short duration. Fragility is a direct reference to the lack of quality and production of items in the fashion and cosmetics industry today. The seductiveness of clothing, packaging and contents is short-lived, inauthentic and superficial. The body becomes the largest garbage producer on the planet for the sake of ideals, eternal youth and beauty. The focus on the body has never been greater, and the values never less.