THE COMPLETION OF A PHRASE. TECHNOLOGY OF A RADICAL GESTURE, May
1995
Martynova Aliona
Curator Nina Zaretskaya
Parker's picture "The Wall" is the film about trivial sores of
the bourgeois world and comprehensive estrangement, neurosis and
schizophrenia. Even the Father of Psychoanalyses was pessimistic
about their possible therapy. So the hero of the film decided to
shave his eyebrows and chest to do away with his ego which he
hated.
To this sorrowful gesture I am adding the pictures of shaving
female pubes. This way of correcting one's appearance has become
pretty popular nowadays. This a rather blasphemous continuation
with respect to rebellious enthusiasm of "Pink Floyd",which
became common long time ago. But in many cases blasphemy and
radicalism become synonyms. Cynicism gives birth to fresh ideas
almost as often as respectability does. Thus Dushan's moustached
"Jokonda" initiated "Jokoniada" series, worrying the public for
several decades by its "toughness".
Every actor interprets gestures and phrases mentioned by a
playwright in the dialogues,in his own way. Just changing an
accent, an intonation, going on or not completing the phrase he
can turn a tragedy into a farse, and a joke into a tragedy.
Can we call shaving of the pubes some kind of feministic-
revelation? As a matter of fact, millions of ladies of the world,
muslim women at least, shave every hair of their bodies.
Originally blasphemous gesture, and shaving the pubes which hurts
the secrecy of female beauty, is blasphemous, can have and not
have any social meaning.
As for myself, I consider shaving of the pubes an everyday
routine action, such as putting paints on the canvas, that I have
been doing since my childhood. Who can object to the statement,
that shaving of the pubes is of the same kind of an artistic
operation as painting?
And what is the cause in this case? Is it pathetics of a famous
musical group or just a habit taken from exotic regulations of
Islamic hygiene or porny ideals of the Beauty?
Aliona Martynova
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