Matzo-book /Мацот-book (2023) Sculpture by Ludmila Skripkina

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Matzo-book, 2023 For this art object "Matzo-book", I chose Sigmund Freud's book "Totem and Taboo". Inside the “Matzo-book”, instead of pages, words, meanings, instead of narratives, instead of language, as is customary in an ordinary book, there is an ordinary matzo. Matzo is essentially a symbolic sign of Taboo,[...]
Matzo-book, 2023

For this art object "Matzo-book", I chose Sigmund Freud's book "Totem and Taboo". Inside the “Matzo-book”, instead of pages, words, meanings, instead of narratives, instead of language, as is customary in an ordinary book, there is an ordinary matzo. Matzo is essentially a symbolic sign of Taboo, prohibition, from the opposite. In this case, the prohibition is that you cannot eat fermented, “leavened” bread, as distinguished from matzo, which you can and should eat. You can eat it, it is allowed, but it itself is the fact that there is a prohibition, a Taboo. The taboo here is part of a binary pair, the other side of the coin.
Since the matzah (sign of Taboo) becomes part of the book (sign of the Totem), this art object fully contains the semantic code of the title of Freud’s book “Totem and Taboo”. The book here is only a sign of a carrier of information, because its functionality is lost, because inside there are not letters ready to tickle our brain, but matzo directed towards our mouth.
The bookishness is under lock and key here, but you still need to get to the matzah, the armor of the hardcover gets in the way.
In fact, Matzot-book is the penultimate book, already without pages, without letters, like a snake that has shed its skin, throwing away the letters and meanings. Or rather, it is the skin, without the wise, well-read snake.
The book, like the Totem, here acquires purely symbolic properties. Its functionality evaporated, got lost in the aral journey of matzo.
The basis of the concepts of Totem and the concept of Taboo is fear. Fear from being in the oscillatory processes of binary, tossing between Good and Evil, Fear and Courage, between Victim and Executioner, between Totem and Taboo. Fear from something invented, or read, in the same book. In fact, this page-binding reflection/fencing off is nothing more than a reflection/fencing off from one’s own life, in its every minute and every second. What kind of tricks have humanity played to avoid living? Therefore, in this art object I construct/state the fact that this door can easily be opened, the key is in the lock, and you can enter.
There is no need here to be a wooden, big-nosed Pinocchio, and go through difficult trials before allowing yourself to be yourself. Relax and enter into yourself, connecting Totem and Taboo at the lock point. And you just need to turn the key in the Matzo--book lock, hear the crunch of pages, digestion and understanding, the fact that any Key, both Golden and ordinary, is always in its place - in the lock

Для даного арт-обьекта "Мацот-book", я выбрала книжку З.Фрейда "Тотем и Табу".
Внутри "Мацот-book" вместо страниц, слов, смыслов, вместо наротивов, вместо языка, как это принято в обычной книжке помещена обычная маца/опресник, которая по сути своей является здесь символическим знаком Табу, запрета, от противного. В данном случае запрет заключается в том, что нельзя есть сбродивший, "квасной" хлеб в отличает от мацы, которую есть можно и нужно. Есть её можно, разрешено, но она сама есть факт того, что существует запрет, Табу. Табу здесь, это часть бинарной пары, второй стороны медали.
Так как маца (знак Табу) становится часть книжки (знака Тотема), то этот арт-объект полностью вмещает смысловой код название книги Фрейда "Тотем и Табу".
Книга здесь только знак носителя информации, т. к. потеряна её функциональность, ведь внутри не буквы готовые пощекотать наш мозг, а маца устремленная к нам в рот.
Книговость здесь под замком, а до мацы нужно ещё добраться, мешает панцирь твёрдого переплёта.
По сути Мацот-book это предпоследняя книга, уже без страниц, без букв, как змея сбросившая кожу, выбросила буквы и смыслы. Или скорее это кожа, без мудрой начитанной змеи.
Книга, как Тотем здесь приобретает чисто знаковые, свойства. Функционал её испарился, заблудился в аральном путешествии мацы.
Основа понятий Тотем, и понятия Табу - страх. Страх от прибывания в колебательных процесах бинарности, метания между Добром и Злом, Страхом и Смелость, Жертвой и Палачом, между Тотемом и Табу. Страх от чего-то придуманного, или вычитаного, в тоже же книжке. На самом деле это странично-переплетное отражение/отгораживание, есть не что иное, как отражение/отгораживание от своей собственной жизни, в её ежеминутности и ежесекундности. Чего только не накуролесило человечество, только бы не жить. Поэтому в данном арт-объекте я конструирую/констатирую факт того, что эта дверь легко может быть открыта, ключ в замке, и можно зайти. Не нужно тут быть деревянным, носатым Буратино, или Пиноккио, и проходить тяжёлые испытания, перед тем, как разрешить себе быть собой. Расслабиться, и войти в себя, соединяя Тотем и Табу в точке замка. И нужно лишь повернуть ключ в замке "Маца-Book", услышать хруст страниц, пишеварения и понимания, того факта, что любой Ключик, и Золотой, и обыденной, всегда на своём месте - в замке.
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1988-2000 - worked as part of The Peppers group. Personal exhibitions and projects: 1991 - The Peppers, Ronld Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Fundasion San German, Puerto Rico; Pittsburgh[...]

1988-2000 - worked as part of The Peppers group.

Personal exhibitions and projects:

1991 - The Peppers, Ronld Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Fundasion San German, Puerto Rico; Pittsburgh Center for the Art

1993 - The Peppers, Contemporary Sculptures from the Former Soviet Union, gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missuori

1995-2000 project "Coat Gallery"

2008 - Charting the Soviet Union: 1989 - 1991, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Some collective exhibitions:

1984 - Exhibition of Odessa artists, APTART gallery, Moscow

1987 - Exhibition of the avant-garde club, Sandunovskie baths, Moscow

1990-1991 Between Spring and Summer, Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, Takhoma Museum of Art

1995 - No Man`s Lend, Copenhagen, Center for Contemporary Art

2016 - Collection! Paris, Center Pompidou

 

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