25.04. - 15.06.
screening at Lindenstrasse 35 Berlin,
daily, 8 – 10 pm
IMAGE TO IMAGE

Katarzyna Kozyra
Diva – Reincarnation at CSW, 2005, 8:07 min


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Awaiting the artist, the audience was first shown a projected image of a pre-war operatic diva in a cage with a lion, which was accompanied by an opera overture played from a vinyl record. The image gradually disappeared and a fabric-draped cage appeared holding Kozyra, dressed in a bodysuit, which was molded from a real human body, that made her resemble an obese woman. In a review published in Gazeta Wyborcza, Dorota Jarecka wrote, "The artist offered a parody of opera, of an opera diva who squeezes into an elaborate dress to sing the role of a girl. Here the situation was reversed — the singer´s abundant body was on the outside, the girl was inside." Completely "concealed" in this costume and conducted by the Maestro, the artist performed the aria of Olympia, the soulless doll from Offenbach´s The Tales of Hoffmann.

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Persons Projects
Lindenstrasse 34-35
10969 Berlin

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