Thu Feb 23 2012 at 06:00 pm
Venue : RABBITHOLESTUDIO, 33 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, Brooklyn
Created By : Marina Markovic
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The exhibition Pressure Me by Marina Markovic features a performance, installation, video and a set of drawings. Throughout her career the artist has been exploring her own body and those of others, observing the process of healing from anorexia, pathological behaviors related to food consumerism as well as corporeal rituals.
Markovic has always treated the body as a sculptural material and during the performance Pressure me the artist becomes a live statue, instructing a tattoo artist to inscribe a pink measuring tape around her waist-line. Through such an act she accepts to constantly monitor the future change of her own body and at the same time comments on the burden of always keeping a standardized perfect female form.
The installation, composed of objects intimately related to the artist’s life and used in their original condition – hospital bracelet from the maternity ward, a color scale of pregnancy tests and religious memorabilia, denotes how everyday reality can be transformed to the status of art. Each segment corresponds to a different need of Markovic’s being and as whole signifies a sanctuary representing how she copes with the existence in this world.
Included are the signature drawings of Markovic’s adult inner life that recall a style of children’s picture books. Juxtaposing infantile fantasy and adult violence the characters of teddy bears, bunnies and kittens are intertwined with sinister themes of death, sickness and fear. Her compositions often depict the uneasy relationship between sexuality and the adolescent body.
Marina Markovic’s work envelops consumerism on various levels: food, ideology, media products as well as the image of the body. Her interest has always been on the restrictions, obsessions and control systems of the figure. The opus of Markovic’s work focuses on the subject of consumption, whether it is nutritional or commercial, revealing that we manifest most of our emotional needs either through food or merchandising products.
Boshko Boskovic
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