If we imagine that who we are consist of a whole range of habits, features, qualities etc. that we have adopted from other people – our biography then can be treated as a fictional construction and understand as a learning process manifested in mind, movements and behavior. If we perform the gestures of others, which within this process become our own, our behavior becomes in a sense fictionalized. How fixed is fiction in our actions and perception?
I am trying to assimilate those “particles of others” very deliberately and intentionally and make it the main tool of my art practice, in order to examine how my body and mind can become a biography of someone else - by embodying different aspects of the people's life in myself and my work. When the “I” can be a “storage” for episodes of biographies of different people - my Self becomes a polyphonic (collective) biography.
What is the role of biography in life and work of the artist? How to “fictionalize” the life to become the work of art itself? If we talk about adopting elements of artist’s life – it might be seen as a way of borrowing and going further – appropriation. Could this be a way to avoid destruction and oblivion (thinking about the art works that are kept forgotten in a museum storage or the biography as a way of preservation)? If my Self could be perceived as a collection – am I a museum? Is it possible to make a retrospective exhibition then?
Formation of a polyphonic autobiography is in constant progress, modus operandi. Its process is as important as the “final” result - the moment of showing the work to the public understands as one of the stages of the progress and at the same time a presentation of the document(s) of the past course. And thus the outcome and prospects of the future project base on a mutual enchantment and engagement – both on my part and the perspective character.
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