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2/11/2004

Mirjana Rukavina

Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien

"Beauty Archives 2002/04", work in progress
3. 11. 2004

On show are photographs of anonymous young women who Mirjana Rukavina mostly encountered on the streets and invited to a "beauty shooting". The young women are not professional models and have no experience whatsoever with posing. Mirjana Rukavina says that when she photographs other people she is also always taking photographs of herself.

The 'Beauty Photographs', photos of the young women who fall into the category of being aesthetically attractive, have been accumulated in a beauty archive by the artist Rukavina, perhaps to provide the generations to come with an insight into a non-mainstream or other institutional definition of currently 'accepted' beauty.

… here is a matter of an egocentric performance documented for “us”, the viewer, in an appropriated fashion photo genre. “Truth”, beauty and fashion are all closely connected in an exciting and stimulating sense despite all orthodox social ideologies - and the artist is consciously aware of her own, and our, pleasure.

Presentation/Date: Wed. 3.11.2004, 7pm

Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währingerstraße 59, Stiege 2, first floor
1090 Vienna
Austria

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