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SLEEPING BEAUTIES IN PARADISE LOST
(or How to Kiss a Sleeping Beauty)
The Samoilov family museum is an extraordinary place where time is standing still.
In extension to the objects and portraits of the multitalented Samoilov dynasty, the museum shows an impressive exhibition of costumes used in various roles both in ballet and theatre. The dresses are presented in display cases of glass, as if they were sleeping beauties sealed inside transparent sarcophagues, waiting for the awakening kiss from their everlasting dream. The wardrobe has a melancholic resemblance to a collection of rare butterflies or pressed flowers. Apart from being bitter sweet remainders of the past, the dresses are deceptively fragile. They also function as metaphors for the performing artists who once wore them, as they drove their bodies beyond natural limits. The dancers seem to be in constant metamorphoses, turning from swan to butterfly and from sylph to flower. This transformation involves pain and injuries, turning the performance into a sacrifice for beauty.
In the installation made for the Samoilov museum I am focusing on these thematics. A strange forest will grow around the sleeping beauties and they will once more have roles in a new choreography. The work consists of videos and cut out ornaments attached on the display cases.
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2012 • [май]
Санкт-Петербург,
Петропавловская крепость,
Невская куртина,
левая сторона
(ППК)
[карта]
Телефоны:
(812) 233-0040,
(812) 233-0553,
Факс:
(812) 233-0040
e-mail:
office@proarte.ru
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