Anthology of Girls (АНТОЛОГИЯ ДЕВОЧЕК)

Description

ANTHOLOGY OF GIRLS
Curated by Polina Muzyka
Book design by Katerina Kabesheva
English and Russian edition
Photobook
Size: A4 format
Interior 160 pages, coated paper 150 gsm.
Cover in 400 gsm plasticized Sirio Raspberry
Paperback
ISBN: 9791281835276

Featuring:
AGATA SADKEWITCH
ЮЛИЯ МЯГЧЕНКО
ANNA BOGOMOLOVA
АННА БОГОМОЛОВА
ANNA POPOVA
АННА ПОПОВА
HRISTINA NOVYKOVA
ХРИСТИНА НОВИКОВА
KRISTINA ROZHKOVA
КРИСТИНА РОЖКОВА
MILITSA CLIFFORD
МИЛИЦА КЛИФФОРД
NASTIA ULTRARAREMOON
НАСТЯ УЛЬТРА
NINA ZHURAVLEVA
НИНА ЖУРАВЛЕВА
POLINA MUZYKA
ПОЛИНА МУЗЫКА
SERAFIMA SELA NA LICO
СЕРАФИМА СЕЛА НА ЛИЦО
UREN MERTE (TATIANA)
UREN MERTE (ТАТЬЯНА)
VERA BARKALOVA
ВЕРА БАРКАЛОВА
VERONIKA VOLOKNO
ВЕРОНИКА ВОЛОКНО

ANTHOLOGY OF GIRLS is a photo album composed of photographs of girls for girls and about girls. A girl is neither a woman nor a young woman; a girl is an innocent revolutionary being with a hidden sexuality and a saber-toothed mouth ready to tear off the fattest piece of the world. I compiled an almanac, an anthology, a dirty handmade visual bible for girls in which provocation, innocence, aggression, vulnerability, pornography, anarcho-eroticism, and sloppiness are interwoven. I was not specifically interested in feminist women artists, and I was not trying to make a “feminist statement.” At the time of collecting the material, I did not find in feminism any kind of revolutionary or sexual fervor. Queer aesthetics and feminist aesthetics, in my view, are still rife with clichés. I wanted to focus on the essence of girlhood within a patriarchal model, where the girl fights like a guerrilla: she stands on a meta-level above the man and secretly rules the world, using the benefits of patriarchy and conquering the market, politics, and ethics, making radical femininity her main weapon. ANTHOLOGY OF GIRLS consists of works by artists living in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (or immigrants from these countries) who work with portrait, self-portrait, and modeling (where modeling is a full-fledged artistic statement).