Video work / 7min10sec / object / 32x30x13cm / 2009
Transfiguration as a form and mental transformation, the evolution of personality. The undoing of the tress is an act of not excepting the constraints and conventions of individual destiny, generally excepted way of life and social order through the personality of artist and a woman. The work is constitution of two videos.
In the first video my mother forms the tress from my hair. I put the brush-glove on, which I made from working glove and natural thorns from acacia wood (wood that doesn’t decompose, wood whose thorns were used to make the crown of Christ) and comb my tress until my hair becomes free from any form. In relation to the daily ritual of combing to be “beautiful” this way of combing the hair is done primarily to release the hair of any traditional form of women’s hairstyle (tress).
In the second video my hair is entwined with the branch of Pine tree, on the mountain Kozara where I was born and where my identity started to take form, which was suddenly interrupted in 1991. I am trying to separate the hair from the Pine branch. I’m trying to move, which is painful and almost impossible because the branch plucks my hair every time I move my head. By strong will, persistent efforts and crossing the boundaries of pain I ménage somehow to free myself from the addiction to negative past separation.
Video rad / 7min10sek / objekat / 32x30x13cm / 2009
Preobraženje kao promjena oblika i mentalnog stanja, evolucija ličnosti. Rasplitanje kose kao akt neprihvatanja ograničenja i konvencija individualne sudbine, opšte usvojenog načina života i društvenog poretka kroz ličnost umjetnice ili žene. Rad se sastoji od dva video zapisa.
U prvom video zapisu moja majka formira pletenicu od moje kose. Navlačim rukavicu-češalj, koju sam napravila od radničke rukavice i prirodnih bodlji bagremovog drveta (drveta koje ne trune, drveta od čijih bodlji je napravljena Hristova kruna) i raščešljavam pletenicu dok moja kosa ne postane potpuno slobodna od bilo kakvog oblika. U odnosu na svakodnevni ritual češljanja radi «uljepšavanja» ovakav način češlajanja je prije svega raščešljavanje radi oslobađanja tradicionalne forme ženske frizure (pletenice).
U drugom video zapisu moja kosa je zapletena u granu Bora, na planini Kozari na kojoj sam rođena i gdje se moja ličnost počela formirati, što je iznenada prekinuto 1991.god. Trudim se da odvojim kosu od grane. Pokušavam da se krećem, što je bolno i skoro nemoguće budući da mi grana Bora čupa kosu kada i najmanje pomjerim glavu. Voljom, upornim pokušajima i pomjeranjem granice bola ipak uspijevam da se oslobodim vezanosti za negativnosti prošlosti.
Borjana Mrdja 