February 7 – 28, 2012, Monday – Friday, 10:00 – 18:00
Opening: February 7, Tuesday, 18:00
The exhibition Ukrainian Body is an attempt to take a look at the Ukrainian society as an environment of body’s being, and to conceive the experience of living inside the body. Material surrounding that determines coordinates of limitations and possibilities for our bodies, shapes the everyday-life sensory background – all that is being experienced immediately by the body, “on one’s own back” – reminding us about the harshness of reality, whereas if one can possibly step out of his body, then it’s only forever. Political and ideological guidelines, fears and desires, images and ideas are capable of leaving quite visible signs on the body, they can materialize in corporal forms, manifestations or practices. This complex web of factors of corporal experience and ways of its symbolic cartography has been brought into the focus of art analysis. We suggest to interpret the body, particularly the imaginable, ideal, metaphorical, constructed and caught by participants’ eyes, both as a symptom of its environment and an instrument for its cognition
