Video: Living sculptures by Janina Chape
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
German author Janaina Tschäpe is a versatile personality. Her interests include graphics, painting, photography, video, installations. However, the greatest fame and popularity for Yanina was brought by a series of photo and video works in which she and her friends appeared in fantastic biomorphic costumes.
Especially for several of her projects, Janina Chape has created several costumes from balloons, fabric, silicone and even condoms filled with water. In the role of models - Yanina herself or her closest friends. Such images look extremely strange, and it is not entirely clear whether the author wanted to show us women in unusual costumes, or whether these are generally unearthly creatures - aliens or living exclusively in a fantasy world. Yanina herself is not going to facilitate the task of perceiving her works: "I like the idea of creating fragmentary narratives, so I leave the viewer the opportunity to construct any story on his own."
At the same time, Yanina insists that her work is not at all about how a woman perceives her body. Rather, the author explores how the body becomes a sculpture in motion and living its own life. Yanina Chape explains the absence of men in her projects by the fact that it is much easier for her to work with women.
Janina Chape was born in Dachau (Germany) in 1972 and raised in Sao Paulo (Brazil). She graduated from the Hochschule fur Bilende Kuenste in Hamburg and the School of Visual Arts in New York, receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts, respectively. Yanina Chape currently lives in New York. Her work is very popular: since 2001, from two to five personal exhibitions of the author are held annually in various parts of the world: Tokyo, Brussels, Berlin, New York, Paris and so on.
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