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- Title
Kosmetinės kaukės motyvas Lietuvos šiuolaikinėje dailėje.
- Authors
Račiūnaitė, Tojana
- Abstract
The Lithuanian art of the 2010s is marked with the emergence of a motif of a cosmetic mask that covers and "alters" the face. It is particularly evident in the works of Kristina Ališauskaitė, Jolanta Kyzikaitė and Eglė Vertelkaitė. The article defines the connection between the motif of a cosmetic mask and performativity, and exemplifies it with one of the earliest cases of its integration into the sphere of art - namely, the project The Beauty Lab which was part of the exhibition Innocent Life (2000). The research shows that a cosmetic mask first entered the field of Lithuanian contemporary art as a sign of a performatively documented reality that belonged to both everyday life and the art world, and later as an iconographic figure in painting, graphic art and photography. The analysis of this widely mediated motif seeks to question the traditionally cultural purpose of mask, offers a new and unexpected approach to the problems of personality and identity, and brings forth the multiplicitous visuality of a non-representative and pragmatic mask that remained widely unrecognised by cultural history, and summons its particular yet hard-to-define field of significations.
- Subjects
PHOTOGRAPHY of art; GRAPHIC arts; 21ST century art; CULTURAL history; EVERYDAY life
- Publication
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, 2020, Issue 96, p286
- ISSN
1392-0316
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37522/aaav.96.2020.54