Installation “Torso”, containing three elements, is placed in the gallery as reminiscence on Joseph Kosuth’s practice. In the 1965 work “One and Three Chairs” (composed of a chair, photography of the chair and a text about the meaning of the chair) Kosuth points towards the phenomenology of a changed exhibiting context, within which the idea of the chair changes as much as the very definition of art and its meaning. In my installation, instead of a chair, I put a plaster female torso and a horse bridle on the top of it, trying to change semantics of female torso by constructing a complex item that resulted from this situation. The relation between the female torso and horse bridle builds a unity of a new interpretation of general, (historic) increasing destruction of women, split in traditional male and female roles within all-present hegemony of patriarchy. Artwork “Torso” has tendency to leave formal sigh (meaning) since the torso in a new, (exhibited), situation is experienced as reflection of a problem that visually deconstructs regimes of repression over women. It turns them into possible artwork that visually indentifies traditional folklore, religious and other identities.
Tryptic Torso
About work
Author
Danijela Halda
Date
2010
Medium
Instalation, Photography, Sculpture
Country
Serbia