Mothers
carried the yoke, and daughters bent their backs
ceramics, 24k gold, metal
50x70x25
2022
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.
