Self Portrait

2008

Project Believe, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

The wrung-out rag laying on the wet floor seems to be forgotten by a cleaner — easy to fix, just pick it up. But one can’t easily to pick up this rag — the sculpture is cast in bronze and representing a concept of “non-spectacular”. Most ordinary object become a monument to a duality of a woman, the one who left the rag and flew from the scene and might survived and also to the one who is left as a rag on the floor, exhausted, worn-out, bleeding.