Elena Kovylina independent artist

CARRIAGE

video – Luleå Art Biennale LAB09 Sweden
In our very epoch, one’s demands to oneself grew up enormously. So did those from the side of modern society: self-perfection now appears a live long (and necessarily demanding) process and, consequently, stands as a dramatic condition of human life: nowadays, due to the development of society we are all required for sort of permanent progress, for acquisition of the new skills and qualities, etc.

Factor of stress as well as seduction for non-stop experimentation - with anything that can be experimented - are peculiar to our age; it, thus, forces one to reducing all burdening relations.
A scenario for childlessness and loneliness becomes logically widespread.

Contemporary art was always and still is a field with no social insurance ever guaranteed.
I, as a Eastern Europe woman artist, am thinking of the above mentioned phenomena when considering a certain biological risk brought by extreme fashion of dedicating oneself to career, especially when working as artist.

Baby’s carriage quick downfall is a symbol of woman’s indifference within the society of indifference, where family’s and procreation duties of a woman are being declined.



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© Elena Kovylina, 2003-2008