Date & Location
August 16 – September 6, 2024
Modern City Hub in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
August 16 – September 6, 2024
Modern City Hub in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Curated by Eye Sea Gallery
The project observes the fragility and vulnerability of the question of self-perception of one’s own body, searching for a balance between identifying the body as an insignificant and temporary “shelter for the soul” and the desire to elevate the body to a cult and immortalize its image.
The perception of the body inevitably remains sensual, despite the attempt to shift from the idealistic realm to the materialistic. The body continues to serve as a carrier of meanings and a mirror that reflects all human activity, defining the sensory nature of human existence as its ontological feature.
Principles, fears, reflections, and value systems are mirrored in the body—in its language, plasticity, strength, endurance, but also in its fragility and, ultimately, mortality.
The project “A Little Body” addresses the issues of self-identification through one’s own body and through observing other bodies, touching on the phenomenon of comparison as a step toward rejecting constant comparison.
Through bodily identity, a person exists as a system within a system, which allows them to remain somewhat apart from the system of the world and perceive themselves as a separate object—being within being. Corporeality in its concrete definition is one of the significant factors and preconditions of social life, and as a complex socio-psychological phenomenon, it contains a range of characteristics, among which one of the leading and significant ones is the social dimension.
The boundary between the erotic, the permissible, the spiritual, or the literal is determined solely by the artist. The boundaries of perception and tolerance are defined solely by the viewer.
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