AIKATERINI GEGISIAN : IS THIS WHY I CANNOT TELL LIES?

19 Nov-13 Dec 2014

Overview

Gegisian’s new work is built around photographic ready-mades that follow the cinematic logic of the ‘jump-cut’. She has assembled a heterogeneous body of material including images of gymnasts and space missions; scientific illustrations of Eisenstein’s theory of relativity; flower patterns and autoerotic images from both Soviet and Western photo albums and magazines. This found material is complemented by Gegisian’s photographs, alongside a sound installation based on a dream diary and a text-book on how to become a male escort. Aikaterini Gegisian’s practice is concerned with challenging received notions of cultural and sexual identity. The works in Is This Why I Cannot Tell Lies reference spaces where ideological and gender conflicts are played out, from outer space to the female body, from the natural world to dream space.