Transformation
2012, video installation
Circulation in the Universe, the fluidity of time and the search for understanding existence are some of the most pressing, yet nebulous and abstract concepts that humanity has reached throughout its development. Issues of transformation in (and of) the Universe are central in the world-view of each and every person. It is no surprise that humans have been interested in and occupied with attempting to answer these questions for eons.The answers which have been proposed, accepted, and continuously adapted occupy a prominent place in doctrines and theories across historical epochs. In most spiritual and philosophical systems, humankind views the meaning of being through a process of transition of the bodily shell from one to another, through the number of physical, spiritual and emotional states in the earthly life. With the video "TRANSFORMATION", ZINAIDA articulates and reveals the abundant dimensionality of life's transition between manifestations, encouraging the viewer to think about the eternal questions of existence.
Life is the flow of the eternity. It has the beginning, but does it have the end? A human has given birth to a mystery: living gives birth to mortal, mortal gives birth to living. The answer has become an image of the source of life in the universe — an egg, which is a timeless symbol of transformation. Life passes like water in a river, but does death have sense? Doesn't it, inevitable, give birth again and again? It is coming, the darkness, that creates and comes, and the light that reproduces and diffuses new lives around the world — black and white substances… As the heart bleeds in purple, the red pulses in the most important energies of life between birth and death.
Life is a perpetual motion today and always. Its philosophical perception occurs through black and white colors, which are united by the dynamics of a red color. The colors of rites of the transformation are the colors that continue each other but never iterate. Three colors — three contrast feminine images, are transformed into artistic dresses. Chastity of white, austerity of black and passion of red images is the triune sense of the beginning and the end.
Author of the text: Ruslan Prorva
The project has been presented within the Parallel program of the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012 (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2012) and at the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA, 2013), within CutLog Contemporary Art Forum (Paris, France, 2013), within International Art Fair Art Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013).
Life is the flow of the eternity. It has the beginning, but does it have the end? A human has given birth to a mystery: living gives birth to mortal, mortal gives birth to living. The answer has become an image of the source of life in the universe — an egg, which is a timeless symbol of transformation. Life passes like water in a river, but does death have sense? Doesn't it, inevitable, give birth again and again? It is coming, the darkness, that creates and comes, and the light that reproduces and diffuses new lives around the world — black and white substances… As the heart bleeds in purple, the red pulses in the most important energies of life between birth and death.
Life is a perpetual motion today and always. Its philosophical perception occurs through black and white colors, which are united by the dynamics of a red color. The colors of rites of the transformation are the colors that continue each other but never iterate. Three colors — three contrast feminine images, are transformed into artistic dresses. Chastity of white, austerity of black and passion of red images is the triune sense of the beginning and the end.
Author of the text: Ruslan Prorva
The project has been presented within the Parallel program of the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art ARSENALE 2012 (M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2012) and at the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (The Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA, 2013), within CutLog Contemporary Art Forum (Paris, France, 2013), within International Art Fair Art Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013).