diptych, photograph, lipstick, pencil, paper, each 29×20.5 cm

purchased in 2023 with support from the Czech Republic Ministry of Culture

The diptych consists of a photograph capturing the artist's performance in motion, specifically a record of her body shadow. The second part is an authorial drawing transcription of this action made with lipstick. The documentation of originally performative actions—where body shadows were photographed—evolves in this series into their materialization through fingerprinting, tracing, lipstick enhancement, and other forms of visual interaction (such as the inclusion of mirrors). The Dimension of the Seen belongs to a larger series of such actions in which the artist consistently explores different modes of bodily processuality. In this particular diptych, the use of lipstick as a drawing medium is crucial and represents the artist’s signature technique. It is employed not only from a feminist perspective, but also for its formal properties—allowing for modulation of the intensity of the red pigment. This enables either amplification or softening of themes linked to physicality, joy in life, and the conventional notion of passion.

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