Not a child's time
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Year | 2024 |
Material | Ceramics, metal |
Size | Base: 10 x 14.5 cm; height: 23 cm |
Motolyanets is faithful to soap. Having once chosen it as a theme and subject of his artistic interest, he succeeded in this path, creating his own, individual mythology. Soap in it is a through metaphor, a nuclear mythologem, and, at the same time, a material with which the artist works. Just as for Joseph Beuys, fat and wax acted as an independent, powerful textural principle, as well as a substitute, embodying the ideas and meanings of "social plasticity", an ordinary piece of soap becomes a guide to the world of the most relevant meanings, which manifest themselves in it as in an indicator launched into the right environment. Perhaps this is a cautious tactic, but it contains an element of irony (self-irony) and the necessary critical distance.
Still, soap itself is an object rather loaded with various meanings, which, as a rule, have a reduced connotation. Let's say that the property of soap to slip out of hands sets a certain direction of judgments without a clear, fixed line - it is a performative material that strives to escape and disappear along with water, expressing the fluidity and variability of states. The phenomenology of soap is such that it allows the artist to adjust his attitude, setting the necessary discourses of judgments.
Text: Gleb Ershov