Paintings-objects produced by process of clothes recycling / white acrylic / 180x130cm / 2018-22
Individuation, as a process of confining or localising collective consciousness to an individual, a process that precedes realisation of an individual in its entirety – a phase of separation from universal consciousness, according to Gillbert Simondon’s theory of the individuation process.
Clothing/dress is seen as a possible form of civilisational individuation, a thin boundary/envelope between nature and human historical-social constructions. Clothing is taken as a carrier of a civilisational identity in the sense of artificially produced protective skin that shields and covers natural skin, and gives the body its historical, social, and cultural determinants.
The method that I use in constructing painting/object and disassembling clothes/dresses is opposite to individuation in the formal sense of the word, but it is essentially reciprocal, because it is the bringing back of a shaped, tailored, garment item (which belongs to a particular person) to a collective state, a universal surface. With the process of a dress being disassembled and connected with other disassembled clothes in the form of a painting – its function and value are recycled.
The idea of this method of such hybrid painting weaving is partly rooted in Arachne’s unconventional approach to weaving.
I stretch disassembled family female dresses on a frame, connect them all to a two-genealogical dimensional surface and further unify them by whitening them, which can be seen as a state pre-existing any colours, or as a initial stage of individual formation. By this reverse method, I evoke the form of the process before final individuation – covering the body with textile, dressing and fitting into the time frame and social / urban construction.
Slike-objekti nastale procesom reciklaže odjeće / bijeli akril / 180x130cm / 2018-22
Individuacija kao proces ograničavanja kolektivne svijesti na individuu, proces koji prethodi realizaciji individue u potpunosti – faza izdvajanja iz univerzalne svijesti prema Žilber Simondonovoj teoriji procesa individuacije.
Odjeća/haljina je posmatrana kao moguća forma civilizacijske individuacije, tanka granica/ovojnica između prirode i ljudskih istorijsko-društvenih konstrukcija. Odjeća je uzeta kao nosilac civilizacijskog identita u smislu vještački proizvedene zaštitne kože koja štiti i pokriva prirodnu kožu, a tijelu daje istorijske, društvene i kulturološke determinante.
Metoda koju koristim prilikom građenja slika/objekata i razobličavanja odjeće/haljina je suprotna individuaciji u formalnom smislu ali je u suštinskom recipročna, jer je vraćanje uobličenog, skrojenog, odjevnog predmeta (koji pripada određenoj osobi) kolektivnom odns. univerzalnoj površini, razobličavanjem haljine i povezivanjem sa ostalom razobličenom odjećom. Ideja o metodi ovakvog hibridnog tkanja slike djelimično ima uporište u Arahninom nekonvencionalnom pristupu tkanju.
Razobličene porodične ženske haljine natežem na ram, povezujem ih u dvodimenzionalnu genealošku površinu i dodatno je unificiram procesom izbjeljivanja, dovođenjem u stanje prije svih boja ili početnu fazu formiranja individualnog. Tako obrnutom metodom evociram formu procesa prije konačne individuacije, oblačenja i uklapanja u vremenski okvir i društvenu/gradsku konstrukciju.
Borjana Mrdja 