The "Embodiment" exhibition opened at White World on September 19, 2014

The project reveals the feeling of "own territory" in the range of the human body. Here it becomes the last barrier. The body experiences everything that we are not aware of, the experience lives in it and will look for a way out. The body will speak even when we are silent.


"The project "Embodiment" is my story about understanding the memory of the body. What we suppress and do not want to remember, but our body will always accumulate it. My experience in recent years has included a reluctance to physically live and remember anything... but embodiment is a practice that is now highly encouraged by specialist therapists to allow ourselves to experience all that is happening around and within us, and also to be able to turn to oneself and turn one's gaze deep within oneself. Get back in touch with yourself.
The creation of the exhibition was a performative practice of mine in the workshop, when I tried to return to the moments when the contemplation of pain and the body with which something dangerous happens did not create either discomfort or such a feeling of guilt as it does today. These are sketches from medical manuals, which I once spent dozens of hours drawing to learn to draw. And then it was just genuine curiosity. After all, it was very ethical to look at pictures of broken membranes in a book that teaches how to save a person. Today we see them differently - helpless, painfully fragile.
The experience of Christian practices also came to our aid, when at the liturgy we could stare at the image of a wounded body for hours without feeling pain every second. Today, we do not have such a privilege... However, it was very valuable for me to spend this month in the workshop; flip through all my thumbnails; to remember the moments when I last did not share the depicted suffering. This project is about me. What once taught me, now made it possible to experience things from which I wanted to distance myself - and allowed me to move on."
Olрa Kuzyura

The exhibition will continue in the center of contemporary art, White World, until October 6.