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Komentovaná prehliadka výstavy Moje telo je Tvoj domov
Commented tour of the exhibition My Body is Your Home
Location: Slovak Union of Visual Arts - Gallery Umelka, Dostojevského rad 2, Bratislava - Staré Mesto
Topics: Guided tours
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A commented tour of the exhibition My body is your home will take place on December 17.
The main theme, as in her parallel paintings, is erotic passion, when the body opens, closes, collides with another body in a dynamic rhythm, in wounding and embracing. The courage to give the visualization of corporeality a monumental sensual form right now, when she is at the age of a mature woman, by realistic-expressive capture without aestheticizing correction, allows her to portray the body as an element, as matter in motion in moments when, merging with the body of another, an irrepressible animal energy gushes from the bottom of the physical essence, which immediately, captured by something dizzying and indefinable, throws "into the abyss of being". Valery's airbrush and spray drawings also reveal this energy, you have to work quickly and count on the creative share of chance. The result is swelling colored surfaces of a body experiencing pleasure, whose shapes evoke the segments and bends of a mighty river. The rhythms of the small drama of the miracle of two bodies finally intertwine in a monumental strip of drawings of the mutual penetration of fragments of arms and legs.
This series of drawings is a tribute to love, the union of two beings, the equation of which is the source of life and the cyclically recurring generational struggle for the meaning of human being and existence. Because as Merleau-Ponty says, "the body, i.e. the thing in which I dwell, is a world composed of subject and object, and the way they are intertwined and articulated cannot be compared to anything." (Signes, 1960, p. 211).
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