“Le Tour de France”

“Le Tour de France”, 

          27x130x38 cm, combined technique: stoneware/wire/wood, 2010.    

          

"The car that chugs is nicer than winged Victory" is a famous

Futurist’s sentence who proclaimed in their manifesto the

beauty of speed, death of the time and space and life in the

absolute, eternal and all-present speed. And they left a big

trace on my two-year study of motion in the human figure.

My love for French culture and bike racings is interlacing here

with a great period in the history of art, so I use bikers as a tool,

not to present the human form, but the effect of its movement.

In a wish not only to display but also to express movement,

I multiply the human figure and break it down into geometric

forms. I play with the stylized patterns on jerseys with a little

intervention on legs and hands, trying to create a sense of

movement in line.

“Oh-la-la!”

“Oh-la-la!”, installation, 

combined technique: stoneware/wire/wood, 2010.

The work is focused on the conspicuous and erotic

poses of female legs in stockings with halters placed

on silk cushions in various colors. In it I denies the

existence of female body whose representation is

not needed at all; moreover, it would be superfluous.

The legs became a fetish and they allow the

conception of female sexuality as a product of male

phantasy. This work questions the ever changing

relation between body and its surrounding, the

patriarchal and the consumer society, as well as the

sexual self-freeing of woman. Three women sit

around the table of weeping and destiny. The table

represents their emotional side that hopes and

suffers. This is where the female inner struggle

(or play) occurs, whether she wants to be seen as an

emotional or a sexual being. And, maybe,

the perfection lies in her being both of them.

                                          Photography: Vladimir Popović

                                          Photography: Vladimir Popović