Torzo je rad kojim sam željela uspostaviti vezu sa zaboravljenom sobom iz prošlosti. Kao djevojčica sam svoju pripadnost iskazivala sakupljačkim aktivnostima - sakupljala sam salvetice koje je moja majka sve ove godine čuvala u obiteljskoj kući u Slavonskom Brodu. Radi se o golemoj kolekciji različitih salvetica koje sam sakupljala i razmjenjivala s prijateljicama kroz čitavo osnovnoškolsko razdoblje, te ih sortirala ovisno o materijalu od kojih su izrađene, obliku, rijetkosti i motivu kojega prikazuju. Od svih tih salveta sam se odlučila iskaširati torzo sadašnje ja. Danas sam žena od trideset godina čije je tijelo potpuno izborano iskustvom majčinstva koje me duboko promijenilo.
Moju žensku pripadnost više nije potrebno dokazivati aktivnošću kao što je sakupljanje salveta, ona je sveprisutna na mojemu tijelu prema kojemu izrađujem kalup/negativ u kojega ću ukaširati te vrijedno sakupljane salvete kako bih od jedne kolekcije nastala potpuno druga kolekcija - hrpa istovjetnih torza kojima se želim pomiriti s vlatitim tjelesnim 'ja' tako da suočim publiku s tim visećim ljušturama koje će im se nametnuti, koje će im smetati, kroz koje će se morati provući i koje će morati dotaknuti i maknuti s puta kako bi prošli. Svu svoju neugodu nastalu otkrivanjem vlastite sebe ovim radom želim podijeliti s publikom koja će tu nelagodu osjetiti provlačeći se među iskaširanim ljušturama. Ta blaga nelagoda kod publike bi trebala biti izazvana činjenicom da su se našli u situaciji u kojoj im ulazim nepozvana u privatni prostor.
Svjesna sam i činjenice da rad upravo zbog izbora materijala koketira s kičem u današnjem vremenu u kojemu su hobby art tehnike (među kojima je i takozvana salvetna tehnika) visoko profitabilni biznis zahvaljujući upravo ženama.
Rad Torzo je još uvijek u procesu nastanka. Trenutno kaširam šesti u svojoj kolekciji i nadam se da će ih biti sveukupno 20 do 25 kako bi ih mogla izložiti u nekom galerijskom prostoru gdje će napokon u interakciji s publikom dobiti svoj puni značaj.
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| Skulpturalna instalacija, kaširani papir, veličina promjenjiva (veličina pojedine skulpture cca 30x40x60 cm), 2014. |
Torso
Spatial sculptural installation , bonded paper , variable size (the size of individual sculptures approximately 30x40x60 cm ), 2014.
Back in the 2002nd year in fourth grade of secondary school, I first saw a photograph taken in 1961. showing the happening Yard by Alan Kaprow . Even today when I think of that photo I have the same chills that I felt the 2002nd year because I was aware of how radical that idea was . This idea seemed to stray deep into the past because it seems to methat it would be as radical today in the 2014 as it was at the time of the occurrence . Although this work can be read with a lot of different positions , I was most intrigued by the position of the audience . The photography clearly shows the problems that audience who came to exhibition was faced with . The crowd was forced to participate in the work .
Many authors believe that their work a result of introspection and that the position of the audience is that one should put himself in the position of the author , and there is no need for explanation because that's all clearly visible in art work . In this way, artistic expression becomes an alibi and the answer to every question , and the audience comes into the position of a silent observer , and my attitude is just that the audience is the one who needs to find answers to their own questions as well as I have found some answers to my own questions , thinking about work of Alan Kaprow .
It is why I wanted to find a way to actively engage the audience in this work , and it seems to me that the easiest way to do so is to make use of the fact of their physical presence in the gallery space . I have already tried to implement similar idea using drawing as a media in work called Grey , and this time I decided to do a bunch of sculptures that I produced using my own torso . The imagined I set a bunch of these hanging shell into gallery space through which the audience will have to sneak to get to the rest of the exhibition . I want simboliclly raise awareness that women make more than a half of population, and using my own body and the material which I diligently collected all the childhood I give all of the torsos my own identity . The sculptures are made out of the same mold them and that unifies them , but the very fact that they are made from negatives of my torso and napkins that I collected throughout my childhood, I wanted to give them my own personality and get into the personal space of each individual visitor of the exhibition .
