Lecture by Maria Vtorushina "The Power of the Body"

We invite you to Maria Vtorushina's lecture "The Power of the Body" as a part of the public program for the exhibition of the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre “Oleksandr Roitburd. Power Theory”.
The event will take place on Thursday, April 18 at 19:00 in the exhibition space on the 2nd floor of the PinchukArtCentre in the format of online inclusion of the lecturer.
Entry is free with prior registration: https://forms.gle/UYXHy5jN5h8L7S529
We will talk during the lecture● about the patriarchal attitude and emancipation of the body in Ukrainian culture;● what concepts of the body Oleksandr Roitburd demonstrated in his works;● what is the influence of painting on the understanding of the Ukrainian body in the 90s and the "zeroes" and how do we "read" the body in Roitburd's practice today?
Living and understanding one's own body with its emotions, pain, desires, lust, and pleasure is a unique and subjective experience. But knowledge about the body, and in particular about what other people's bodies are like, is shaped by culture, the state, and religion.Oleksandr Roitburd worked with a wide range of social concepts and ideas, because, as a postmodernist, he was in dialogue with most of the key artistic styles. The bodies of Roitburd's characters, incarnated in maximum pictorial physicality, reformat the roles assigned to them by the cultures of different eras.Thus, psychoanalysis understands sexuality as fluid and constantly undergoing metamorphosis. And in Christianity or Judaism, sex is regulated and mostly something to feel guilty or ashamed about. For ancient democracy, the body was the embodiment of power, power, and pleasure.The totalitarian regime, on the other hand, destroys a person's bodily individuality and regulates desire, instrumentalizing the body as part of a collective organism.In this case, how does the body of a person who is affected by all these constructions at the same time identify (self)?
Lecturer: Maria Vtorushina (they/she) is a curator, researcher, and author.

15.04.2024