Anna Kosarevska: Deconstruction of Body Image
Anna Kosarevska is currently studying at the printmaking department at E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland. At her exhibition at Gallery Fisk, she will show the school of contemporary printmaking. The source of her inspirations are different interpretations of the concept of ’body’, which appears from one side as a functional unit of organs, and from the other side as a means of communications.
In this project I’m focused on the study of the human body images and their changing meanings in contemporary society. Even not body itself, but corporality how it exists.
As seen from an XXth century perspective, the body and it’s perceptions combined into a single crucial understanding of the body as both whole and fragmented. Body becomes more than corporeal manifestation, to engender concepts of materiality and discourse. the body becomes a living object of study, a source for the re-envisioning. I want to show how attempts to measure body thereby reduce the essence of man to the amount of mathematical formulas and pictures are destroying its essence of human body. It remains only a soulless shell, which has nothing to do with the humanity.
I’m inspired by the anatomical and medical images. It was transformed by deconstruction of original ancient image and passing through different graphic techniques. Fragments of the body are used to express momentary emotional frames of mind. X-ray photos and surgery images gives an atmosphere of analysis and discovering. By using aesthetic of hyperrealism I create a new dimension of the schizophrenic body, an organisms without parts which are corresponds to the concept of ‘body without organs’ of gilles Deleuze.