Transformation as a form of resistance
Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, 2021
Transformation as a form of resistance’ is a two-act project by Haim Sokol, exploring the ideas of transmutations and borderline states — between human and animal, female and male, animate and inanimate, homely and creepy, past and present. The artist speaks not about biological or psychological transformations, but more about metaphors or allegories, creating poetic pieces and conventional spaces with fragile figurative sensuality, resembling decorations. This is why the exhibition is somehow theatrical, showcasing a two-act mystery. When one’s reality is full of anxiety, fear, trauma and alienation, the only way left is to transform. The transformation cannot offer salvation but rather redemption. It gives one’s suppressed past power to fight.
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