Video / 15min3sec / installation – hundred prints on paper / 35X32cm / 2009
Enthronement – culmination or firm positioning of certain figure. Enthronement is a ceremony of inauguration – taking the oath in order to perform responsible duties, after which an individual occupies the authoritative identity or some kind of power, in terms of sitting on the throne for the first time (throne as the personification of the political or religious authority). Enthronement of the artist thro the culmination of her identity.
Enthronement ceremony is carried out by making the hundred self-portraits, as I am putting the make-up on my face for a hundred times. All self-portraits / identities are very different which depends on the colors and the variety of their combinations applied on my face. After putting the make-up I take it off by rubbing the face with the paper and by doing so I get a print – a monotype on the paper like some kind of auto-portrait.Every action of taking the makeup of my face on the paper I document with the video camera.
Video / 15min3sek / instalacija – stotinu otisaka portreta na papiru / 35x32cm / 2009
Ustoličenje – kulminacija ili čvrsto pozicioniranje određene ličnosti. Ustoličenje je ceremonija inauguracije – polaganja zakletve radi vršenja odgovorne dužnosti, nakon čega pojedinac zauzima autoritativan identitet ili neku vrstu moći, u smislu sjedenja po prvi put na tronu (tron kao personifikacija državnog ili religioznog autoriteta).
Ustoličenje umjetnice kulminacijom njenog lika.
Ceremonija ustoličenja se odvija tako što pravim stotinu autoportreta nanoseći šminku na svoje lice stotinu puta. Svi autoportreti / identiteti su različiti u zavisnosti od boja koje nanosim u različitim odnosima na svoje lice. Nakon svakog šminkanja skidam šminku na papir trljanjem papira po licu i tako dobijam otisak-monotipiju lica na papiru u vidu autoportreta.
Svaku akciju skidanja šminke sa lica na papir dokumentujem video kamerom.
Borjana Mrdja 