Video Work

Private Places (created April 3, 2012) 


Artist Statement: Private Places explores traditional representation of femininity as the notion confined by domestic space. The series comprises of traditionally processed film-based photographs which blur the line between fantasy and reality. 

Project Background: I have started to develop this set last year when I was working on a site-specific commission for a theatre gallery aiming to produce work in response to Arthur Miller's play "A View from the Bridge." Drawing from the 1950s Hollywood iconography, I have made an attempt to create a show relating to the story of the play's protagonist, whose unrecognized emotions, triggered by the everyday domestic encounters with the subject of his forbidden desire, drive the play to its dramatic final. While working on the series, however, I have realized that for me as an artist coming from a cultural background in which emancipation in the sphere of work has brought little changes in the way women roles are viewed by the representatives of both genders, the work appears to playfully illustrate as well as subvert the portrayal of such archetypes as ‘angel in the house,’ ‘Daddy’s little girl,’ ‘mad woman’ and ‘femme fatale’, which still appear to prevail in the media discourse of contemporary advertising.

Prints:  Prints are available to order on demand directly from the artist. Please, do not hesitate to contact.