Mothers
carried the yoke, and daughters bent their backs
ceramics, 24k gold, metal
50x70x25
2022/26
The
work consists of ceramic imprints of serf crosses, monuments erected
to commemorate the abolition of serfdom. The type of garment, which
took the form of a chainmail, is at the same time an attempt to don a
rejected identity. However, the garment made of ceramic is
characterized by a weight that is natural to itself, under which the
body wants to bend rather than straighten. The weight carried over
generations becomes a new kind of monument as an experience of the
somatic archive.
