В букете должно быть нечетное количество цветов, на свежую ранку стоит приложить подорожник, а лилия — цветок королей. Все эти простые истины плотно укоренены в нашем сознании. Помимо всех прочих смыслов, которыми наделили цветущие растения ушедшие эпохи, превратив их в язык знаков, цветок есть, был и будет универсальной метафорой красоты. Так в своем альбоме "Alphabet of new plants" Роберт Войт, изучая границы понятия эстетического в искусстве собирает почти настоящий гербарий из ненастоящих цветов, перенося свой ботанический опыт в искусство фотографии. В процессе работы с книгой я открыла для себя замечательную в своей простоте и абсурдности вещь — цветочный гороскоп.
Казалось бы, какое отношение цветы имеют к звёздам, а тем более к людям?
Казалось бы, какое отношение цветы имеют к звёздам, а тем более к людям?
В моем проекте ботанический справочник как способ классификации и систематизации видов соединился
с цветочным гороскопом обретая современную немного ироничную оболочку теста "Какой вы цветок?", заполняя который вы сами вписываете себя в антропологический гербарий.
Хотите узнать о себе что-то новое? Увидеть себя в причудливом калейдоскопе цветочных лепестков?
Тогда этот тест для вас!
The bouquet should have an odd number of flowers, a plantain should be applied to a fresh wound, and a lily is a flower of kings. All these simple truths are firmly rooted in our consciousness. In addition to all the other meanings that flowering plants have endowed with bygone eras, turning them into a sign language, the flower is, has been and will be a universal metaphor for beauty. So in his album "Alphabet of new plants" Robert Voight, studying the boundaries of the concept of aesthetic in art, collects an almost real herbarium from fake flowers, transferring his botanical experience to the art of photography. In the process of working with the book, I discovered a wonderful thing in its simplicity and absurdity - a flower horoscope.
It would seem, what do flowers have to do with stars, and even more so with people?
In my project, the botanical reference book, as a way of classifying and systematizing species, was combined with the flower horoscope, acquiring a modern, slightly ironic shell of the "What flower are you?" test, filling which you enter yourself into the anthropological herbarium.
It would seem, what do flowers have to do with stars, and even more so with people?
In my project, the botanical reference book, as a way of classifying and systematizing species, was combined with the flower horoscope, acquiring a modern, slightly ironic shell of the "What flower are you?" test, filling which you enter yourself into the anthropological herbarium.
Do you want to learn something new about yourself? Find yourself in a bizarre kaleidoscope of flower petals? Then this test is for you!
This project is based on the album "Alphabet of new plants" by Robert Voight. In this book author explores the boundaries of the aesthetic, first painstakingly working on botanical notebooks, and later collecting fake flowers into
an album. He endures the rules of a real herbarium only to break them.
As Juliet says in Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet": "A rose smells like a rose, Call it a rose, or not," so flowers are a universal metaphor for beauty, whether alive or artificial, it doesn't matter at all. The idea of a fake herbarium touched and amused me very much, a little hooliganism, completely harmless, at the same time pleasantly daring.
As Juliet says in Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet": "A rose smells like a rose, Call it a rose, or not," so flowers are a universal metaphor for beauty, whether alive or artificial, it doesn't matter at all. The idea of a fake herbarium touched and amused me very much, a little hooliganism, completely harmless, at the same time pleasantly daring.
My work consists of two parts, a test and an Instagram mask.
The main idea of the project was to collect an anthropomorphic herbarium from the visitors of the exhibition, classifying them, breaking them into conditional species. In the course of work, this idea was bizarrely mixed with a flower horoscope and a girl's test in a notebook, which only selected girlfriends are allowed to fill out, and only in secret. At the same time, the project reflects my habit\need to keep memory between the sheets of the notebook in the form of any garbage, tickets, candy wrappers, flowers, and every visitor, I wanted to remember — put in a notebook.
Developing the visual part of the project, following Robert Voight, I tried to define for myself the boundaries of the aesthetic in modern mass culture. The simplest, low-poly models of flowers - foliage, act as a digital carrier of the same universal metaphor for beauty.
Resorting to the Instagram mask format that has recently become widely available to developers, I tried to find the line between beautiful, fashionable, author's and permitted. It turned out to receive a response to your request not only,
The main idea of the project was to collect an anthropomorphic herbarium from the visitors of the exhibition, classifying them, breaking them into conditional species. In the course of work, this idea was bizarrely mixed with a flower horoscope and a girl's test in a notebook, which only selected girlfriends are allowed to fill out, and only in secret. At the same time, the project reflects my habit\need to keep memory between the sheets of the notebook in the form of any garbage, tickets, candy wrappers, flowers, and every visitor, I wanted to remember — put in a notebook.
Developing the visual part of the project, following Robert Voight, I tried to define for myself the boundaries of the aesthetic in modern mass culture. The simplest, low-poly models of flowers - foliage, act as a digital carrier of the same universal metaphor for beauty.
Resorting to the Instagram mask format that has recently become widely available to developers, I tried to find the line between beautiful, fashionable, author's and permitted. It turned out to receive a response to your request not only,
as it was originally supposed, in the form of comments from network users, but also from Instagram developers who check and approve all masks before publication. An interesting discovery was the presence of a vague, but nevertheless unquestioning set of rules for developers, regulating not only the technical properties of files, but also some visual ones, which in fact can be regarded as an attempt to control the aesthetic function of masks. At the moment, not all masks have passed the test and have been approved for use, and those that have passed, have not passed it in their original form.
Проект был представлен на выставке «Лаборатория №1. Самые красивые» 2019г. Москва.
Кураторы: Катя Сиверс и Маша Челоянс
Project was presented at the exhibition «Laboratory №1. The most beautiful» 2019 Moscow.
Curators: Katya Sivers and Masha Cheloyans