Irina Dmitrovskaya

DONT LOOK AT PINK (KAZ)

Irina Dmitrovskaya investigates views on her own sexuality, othered as queer sexuality from the outside. She shows an interplay of closeness and distance, of fragmentation and framing. She questions where heteronormatively regulated differentiations come from, as they don’t match the feeling of love and togetherness from within. The series depicts this very variety of being viewed as something other. Her compositions sharpen heteronormative hyper-fixations, as she for instance makes the preoccupation with female nipples into something literally consumable, a pink nipple muffin or baby blue lametta pubic hair. She shows black and white studio portraits of her in close embrace with a partner – how do the two go together, outer hyperfixation and inner vastness, as they are forced to exist in the same frame of reference?

Irina Dmitrovskaya untersucht Kategorisierungen, äußere Blicke und Ideen der eigenen Sexualität, die als queere Sexualität von außen betrachtet wird. Sie zeigt ein Wechselspiel von Nähe und Distanz, von Fragmentierung und Rahmung. Sie hinterfragt, woher heteronormativ bestimmte Unterscheidungen kommen. Jene, die nicht zu einem innerlichen Gefühl der Liebe und Gemeinsamkeit passen. Die Serie stellt genau diese Vielfalt des Andersseins dar. Ihre Kompositionen spitzen heteronormative Hyperfixierungen zu, indem sie etwa babyblaues Lametta-Schamhaar inszeniert oder die Überfokussierung auf weiblich gelesene Nippel zu etwas buchstäblich Konsumierbarem macht, einem rosa Nippel-Muffin. Zu diesen Überspitzungen zeigt sie schwarz-weiße Studioporträts von ihr selbst, beispielsweise in enger Umarmung mit einer Partner*in – wie passen die beiden zusammen, äußere Hyperfixierung und innerliche Weite, wenn sie gezwungen sind, im selben Bezugsrahmen zu existieren?

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