Artwork Title: Red
Artwork Title: RedArtwork Title: RedArtwork Title: Red
The female body has always been very present in her work, but it has rarely been a peaceful representation of quiet women; below the surface there is almost always a form of violence, of destruction. In many of her previous sculptures, the female body is cut, destroyed, torn apart, penetrated, its intimacy is destroyed, raped. ‘Red’ is a tragic sculpture impossible to discard, impossible to forget. Its forms are extremely simple, a circle and a triangle, but they compose a tragic story: a woman transpiercing herself with her sharpened mermaid tail cutting through her lap, tearing apart her womb, opening her belly in a vertical cut which necessarily echoes her sexual slit a few inches below. She is covered with blood fro head to toe, the blood of her lost virginity, the blood of her childless parturition, the blood of her self-inflicted death, flowing all over the surface of the statue; she is transpiring blood (“sweat like drops of blood”), oozing blood. One cannot imagine her getting pleasure from this penetration in this fantastic nightmare, this Sadean dream, but her face shows no suffering, just an absence, a void, like a zombie or a death camp survivor. And no man can dare to approach her, hold her, embrace her, even to comfort her, at the risk of joining her in death, impaling himself on her, in a deadly 'petite mort'. (http://www.galeriekornfeld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Tamara_Kvesitadze-Galerie-Kornfeld-Berlin-2013.pdf)
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