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Almost Perfect World

Artist: Borjana Mrdja

Category: Video, Installation

Description:

Almost perfect work (video work 4min56sec; object; installation; 2009)

• I made the Make-up glove from the working glove that I found on the building site and from the five lipsticks that I pulled through cutout tiptoes of the gloves. I changed the practical function of these objects by putting them in a symbiotic relation. My face is my work area on which I take action in front of the mirror, and this action is documented as a video.
• I’m putting on the make-up glove on my hand, and turning of the lipsticks on the glove tiptoes.
• I’m trying to put the lipstick on my lips.
• The everyday action becomes awkward and grotesque because of the working glove which violates the established rhythm of woman’s attitude towards her face.
• Turning of the lipsticks is accompanied by the sound of drilling machine while the sound of grinding machine is accompanying crossing of the lipstick over my lips, sounds of devices that are used in the everyday life on the building site.

a r t i f i c e: I tend to explore the possibilities of the body as a media communicator in artistic work. By using the body as metaphor together with constructed objects of my creation I am exploring the limits and absurd influence on that same body. Through this kind of approach I`m trying to appoint some questions and to imply the possible answers through these works:

• Enclosing from the influence of other identities, which is manifesting as an attempt to protect the       authenticity and independence of one’s own?
• Threat from the configuration of the identity according to socially accepted norms.
• Attempting to visualize and formally represent the identity categories on individual social level.
• Area of the past established in reference to fear of losing the identity. Fear defined as a substance. Each substance is dissolvable or dissolves itself?
• Art as a mechanism used for disruption of social patterns used for manipulating an individual.

Used Tool: YouTube.

Language: English.