BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
The project explores new ways of depicting the body arising in the tension between corporeality and incorporeality in the medium of photography and design at the interface of reality and fiction in a creative dialogue between two artists, Sylvia Jokelová and Jana Hojstričová, working in different media (disciplines) in different models of collaboration using biomaterials and specific photographic techniques of image transfer on unusual materials (gelatin, agar, etc.) with the potential of hybridizing the photographic image and the object.
Peter Machata joined the project with the collection "Portrait of a Lady". "The face communicates, shows off, masks, hides, shows what it wants to show. I prefer to observe the hands, they are easy to hide, they don't mask anything. We protect them and at the same time expose them to the greatest danger. We can't do much without them. They create, they work, they caress, they record time, the way we live. They are a portrait we rarely show, but they say more about us than we would like."
The collection of hangings was created by 3D scanning women's hands, including those of Sylvia Jokel and Jana Hojstričová. Subsequent digital processing and milling of the relief into wood created unusual portraits of the artists, who within the project portray their own bodies and deal with their imperfections, aging and inevitable demise.
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