Form of tenderness

New project of Inna Grinchel represent acquainted artists and curators, relatives and friends of the artist as immodest (and not so much) photo session. Photo documented performance with changing dresses and full exposure of some personalities within art society becomes art therapy practice for the author

and model. Putting the person into new situation and creating another identity or returning to unknown – the artist’s goal in this project. Fabulous and mythological heroes in which you may know old acquaintances – is the continuing of the theme that the artist started in 2000 with the antique heads project «Transformation». In both projects – images of the heroes «1001 nights», mythos and legends, created as a process of wrapping acquainted bodies into color silk or rags. Paying attention again to your body is a practice of searching your own «form of tenderness», philosophical road towards yourself. At the exhibition more than 30 photo images are resented that are put on the metal panels and some sculptures from the old project «Transformation».

 

Project philosophy In the set of consuming there’s the object much more beautiful, more precious, brighter than all others, more connotative than a car, the object that however summarize everything – it is the Body. Its «new revelation» after millennium époque of Puritanism that came as physical and sexual release, its

everywhereness in advertising, fashion, mass culture (and particularly woman body, you should understand why), hygienic, dietary, therapeutic cult, which is close round, obsession of youth, elegance, manhood or womanhood, leaving, modes, sacrificial actions that come along with it, the Myth of pleasure – all this states that the body became the object of salvation. It indeed replaced the soul in this moral and ideological function. This discourse on the pretext of reconciling everyone with his own body enters again the same relations between subject and body, objectified as threatening twin, that exist in social life, the same determinations that exist in social relations. You should be present within yourself, learn to read your body. Stretch yourself out on the ground, bring your hands around. And put very slowly an invisible line with the middle finger along all your hand up to concavity of the elbow, underarm. The same line exists on your legs. These are lines of sensitivity.

Your form of tenderness. There are another lines of tenderness: spine, nape, belly, shoulders… If you are not aware of them, then slowdown may occur as it happens in the mentality. Zones of the body, not connected with your sensitivity, not observed by your thought – it’s ungrateful material.

Jhan Bodriyar

 

The project of Inna Grinchel is caused by strange obsession to «re-see» images of acquainted people beyond their usual circumstances, let imagine additional sense to daily life. And the question is why? Inna responds: My way of communication is probably the discovery of what people deny or neglect. When you change dresses and put marginal dress on, something valuable returns. It’s some kind of performance with photo-art-therapy elements. The procedure of changing dresses is important, it is required that the body is «to be switched on» and time to be expanded. Marginal dress and the object are likely work as the required conditions for this. You may imagine that the identity in the modern society that is divided into cultural separated groups, each one with its cultural code, becomes the trap