About this Event
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During «Lustration», Maria, immersed in a bathtub together with her soap sculptures of hands and feet containing flowers inside, performs a ritual of self-lustration. She washes her body and face, engaging in an act of sacrifice, thus cleansing herself from past traumas. Reflecting on the action, the artist comments:
«With my own hands, I wash myself, comb through, tear away the soap skin, wipe myself, cleanse, and shake off my entire body. I observe the lustration of my own image and that of a woman in the patriarchal context. Washing and erasing my own hands is a reference to the invisible labor of women—something society portrays as beautiful, normal, and natural, woven into the very skin of every woman, yet it also imperceptibly dissolves her.»
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Soap, the primary material used to create the body cast sculptures of the artist, is a metaphorically conflicted material. It is used in military factories for testing weapons of mass destruction because it has the same density as the human body and is semi-transparent, making it an ideal platform for testing the most lethal weaponry.
Kulikovska’s desire to cleanse herself from pain, political conflicts, discrimination, hardships, and the chaos of this world has transformed into art therapy—a lustration of herself through the sculptural replica of her own body.
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Video: Art Edition of Vogue UA
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mriya Gallery, 101 Reade Street, New York, United States
USD 0.00
