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Elena Balsiukaitė-Brazdžiūnienė
Pretend (Adam and Eve), from the LIKE HAMLET series
It has no gender. It is neither a child nor an adult. Its ability to move is restricted by construction joints, but the face is senselessly optimistic and pretty. Well, he is a hopeless rebel. I named him Like Hamlet. I had been thinking about the Hamlet Syndrome before that; about the person who annoys everybody with his questions, moves against the system, condemns himself and other to anxiety, and cannot make the decision to act. In the picture he is holding a piece of chalk and tries to draw himself, to complete himself. Out of this work, others have emerged, and it has become the series of works about the passion for action and petrifaction in rhetorics, about the triumph of circumstances and weakness. In other works Hamlet metamorphoses into Ophelia (Ophelia), the Father’s Ghost (E=mc2) or Adam and Eve (2 Pretend). The positive character vanishes. 48
Kaip Hamletas Jennifer Sims / Like Hamlet. 2012