• Nicole Tran Ba Vang

    Date posted: August 14, 2006 Author: jolanta

    ImageAttempt to reach the limits of appearance and become part of the context yourself.
    Question your identity by integrating the model, literally as well as figuratively, until an ambiguity has been created between the body and its context.

     The identity of the model and the context comes to life reciprocally in a perfect fusion, in total paradoxical harmony. Expression of the identity through the context as a projection or extension of the self.


    The pattern is embroidered on the body as a yarn is spun: your own yarn .It changes into stigmata, spreads, invades the body, becoming almost organic. Then it seems to gain its own autonomy, like a virus. It escapes our control, crossing forbidden zones, shifts out of the picture, invading the frame, the wall, out to conquer fresh territories. The threat of invasion soon seems inevitable. We all develop own pleasure systems according to our own rationales. Now uncontrollable, the pattern weaves unimaginable ramifications. The form of the context is now no longer embroidered, but hand sculpted in wood or in wall painting. It replaces the frame, crosses over it, deconstructing in order to escape once again. The wall now becomes its territory, and so it draws ever closer to us. Photography becomes incarnate, changes its status, turning into sculpture. Are we parts of an extension of ourselves or are we trying to affirm our identity through the codes of social belonging? Maybe both?

     

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