Female Shorts Drawing

My main subject of inspiration is female beauty. Usually I use printmaking and drawing techniques in my work. For this artwork, i choose drawing technique. Women’s underwear in the artist’s works opens intimate spaces and experience of femininity whichin front of an observer’s eye appear as research, reappraisal and communication fields. Female clothing takes special place in the author’s artistic work precisely because of its firm existential connectivity with body, which apart from its ancient role of body covering in order to protect it from the outer environmental factors also has distinctly magical function. In terms of the growth of clothing’s significance in the evolution of society, the author is enticed by the high modern aesthetics of female garments in which she finds difference between beautiful and beautified object of which nature Friedrich Schiller wrote a lot in his letters “On the Aesthetic Education of man”. Female clothing takes special place in her artistic work for it builds firmexistential connection with body, the one that can be deciphered in respect of the fact that throughout history body has always been symbolically marked for “the attempt of transcendental spiritualization”. Garment lives with a body; a body is warm, clothing on a body is warm. “Body and clothing have a long history of function and meaning alterations as well as the changes of forms in pursuit of expressing the personal, class-caste,gender, national and cultural identity and these changes raise question of the relationship between tradition and industry, aesthetics and commercialization , uniformity and individuality, autonomy of taste and heteronomy of kitsch.” The author’s illustrations of women’s underwear is read as a female letter; inscription of the text into the body which calls for the new possibilities of reading and representation of femininity. In exhibited performances women’s underwear is in slightly impaired forms, threadbareand worn out, absorbedand blended with the body which carries it and wants it, female body in which impermanent impulse of ideal of beauty and sensuality is carved on. The spectacles that open up in front of an observer causes weetness and the mere pleasure that pops and blooms towards the quest for the intimate, that can be viewed from a wider perspective,and in the contemporary context of living in a society in which intimacy is increasingly contracted until it lightly vanish,under the public scrutinyof social networks and virtual communication. Jelena Damnjanovic’s artistic works call for the new possibilities for reading and communication, through which the author explores in the field of representation of female body in which she breathes, reveals, writes and hands down for further readings.

Drawing:Graphite on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:13.8 W x 19.7 H x 0.1 D in

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