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Tukultu Bitrù • zine #21
Fragments II Gianni Rusconi Selezione testo: Alberta Bamonte
Photographs: shooting 2014.06.06 between 15:12:07 h and 16:31:06 h, Borough Market area, London, UK. Text in balloons: found 2014.06.06 at FPS art exhibition ‘Missing Narrative? What you see is what you see’, Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU, UK, from a pile of printed A4 sheets of paper related to an artwork, signed: Sally Buchanan (June 2014).
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THESE PIECES REFLECT A RESPONSE TO THE SUBLIME OF THE UNSEEN AND TO THE STARK DESOLATION OF THE TABOO OF “THE UNSAID ABOUT THE WRITTEN”, AND “ THE SAID ABOUT THE SEEN “...
... CAPTURING ASPECTS OF BOTH THE DARKNESS AND THE LIGHT IN THE PARADOXES OF THE PERCEIVED PHYSICAL WORLD...
... AND HINTING AT EXISTENTIAL DEATH AS A CONSEQUENCE OF “IMPOSED OR UN-IMPOSED SOCIO-CULTURAL BOUNDARIES“...
...LIMITING IMAGINATION AND FREEDOM OF ACTION, REGARDLESS OF COLLECTIVE OUTCOMES AND DESPITE UNCONSCIOUS RESISTANCES.
Chastity - past present and future (April 2012)
CHASTITY IS THE QUALITY OR STATE OF BEING CHASTE. TO BE CHASTE- ONE IS SEXUALLY PURE, DECENT AND MODEST, ABSTAINING FROM UNLAWFUL SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.
MOST RELIGIONS DICTATE CODES OF CONDUCT WITH RESPECT TO SEXUALITY AND IN THIS WAY RELIGION COULD BE VIEWED AS HAVING TAKEN SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTROLLING VIRTUE AND SIN.
AT ANY POINT IN TIME, THE ARTIST REGRETS TO SAY THAT THE STATUS OF THE BIBLE IN OUR SOCIETY REFLECTS THE STATUS OF THE COLLECTIVE BELIEF IN BOTH VIRTUE AND SIN.
A VIRGIN IS A WOMAN OF VIRTUE; SHE IS THE EPITOME OF CHASTITY, AS IS THE CELIBATE.
IN MOST CULTURES AND RELIGIONS, CHASTITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN VENERATED; VIRTUE HAS SERVED AS A CONTROL ON SEXUAL MORAYS, AND IN TURN HAS ACTED AS A CONTROL ON SOCIETY ITSELF.
INTERESTINGLY, THE VERB ‘TO CHASTISE’ MEANS TO ‘MAKE CHASTE’ BUT THIS INCURS PUNISHMENT BY SEVERE CRITICISM OR BY BEATING.
IN THE PAST, THE UNCHASTE WERE CHASTISED AND THEY WERE BRUTALISED.
ORGANISED RELIGION CONDONED THIS.
IN THE LAST CENTURY, FEMINISTS HAVE ACCUSED MEN OF HYPOCRISY DUE TO CULTURE AND SOCIETY IMPOSING THEIR RIGID CONVENTIONS ON WOMEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY. THE FEMALE WAS EXPECTED TO BE ENTIRELY CHASTE...
...THIS WAS A CONCEPT SUPPORTED BY A BIASED INTERPRETATION OF VARIOUS BIBLICAL PASSAGES IN BOTH OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
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Fragments II
(from artists’ statements)
Giani Rusconi Selezione testo: Alberta Bamonte
Tukultu Bitrù una vera falsa casa editrice
Fragments II
(from artists’ statements) 2014 formato 210 x 230 pagine totali: 28
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