AVTOPORTRET / 2006
National Art Gallery Maribor, Slovenia

CONCEPT:
The circle as a symbol of circulating, repeating,…
With turning the circle we are setting the movement in the continuum. Its wideness is representing personal space of each woman. The inner circle is representing under consciousness and wishes. The outer circle is generic reality.
BARBIE
Her common appearance is alive in a girls play for many decades. For me it is a quiet tool for educating a potentional consumer in aim for beauty standards, so she is an ideal buyer in the cosmetic and fashion industry. With positioning her in an inner circle, she is showing the under conscious wish of every women and controlling her self-confidence, putting her complexes in a progress and increasing her dissatisfaction with the reality.
REAL WOMEN BODIES
In a usual pose of a Barbie doll, standing on her foot fingers. With positioning in the outer circle they are showing their real potentials.
CHILDREN'S HEADS
On the real women bodies are symbolizing the enigma. As a little girl I am not aware of a problematic, because my environment doesn’t conflict my appearance, but as I reach the puberty, there comes a switch. The children body begins with obvious changes. I am showing my own experience from adolescence, when changes of my body was expected in some certain, familiar way as the media has told me, but the opposite happen. From the moment, when I am aware of my deviation from the normative, I become mature and prepared for self control, at the same time I become a part of a consumer chain.
SET UP
The purpose of a circle is to rotate in space.It is controlled from the observer, but the final landing of an object is unpredictable. With turning this circle the active visitors are putting the symbol into life and so they are gathered in a wideness of a personal space, which allows a contact, the inside is revealed, but staying untouchable. The position of the rotating circle is putting the dolls in the inside of the form, when the ones on the outside are exposing the question, ‘which of these bodies is mine?’ The final message of the concept is a lot wider and it concerns every woman carrying a fragment of a Barbie doll in herself.