Natalia LL
Natalia LLThe beginning of Natalia LL’s career was marked by a collaboration with the Polish conceptual art movement. In a later phase of Natalia LL’s career, bodily pleasures and a narcissistic attitude gave way to depictions of ugliness, suffering and the fear of death. Though the artist’s body is still in the center, it is often deformed in such a way that it becomes unrecognizable. Word is from the early years of Natalia LL’s artistic career when, in her multiple theoretical statements, she stressed that what matters is registering the transformation of one activity into another. The work depicts an act of formulating a word in a temporal sequence, but does it in such a way that
the word remains unrecognizable. Formulating a word here is an act of a woman “simply” assuming the role of a speaking subject, but not of saying something particular. However, the photos seemingly registering feminine speech in fact just show the woman’s appearance, emphasizing her slightly open but silent lips. As if her voice could not be heard. As if her representation had to remain within the domain of eroticism. |
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