Social interconnectedness offers human beings a sense of identity and a way to deal with our everyday emotions. The lockdown is making us feel some different griefs at a time of great anxiety and uncertainty. We feel the world has changed. Many people are stuck inside their homes and not able to visit other places. Everyday routines feel dreary and it may seem pointless to even do ordinary tasks at home.

In the new work called Adapting To The New Reality Of Life Under Lockdown I want to make familiar things unfamiliar, to be taken out from everyday life experience, from familiar associations, to turn it over and to displace it; to de-routinise everyday experience. I want to present the common thing in a strange, unfamiliar way, to enhance the perception of the familiar. Through displacement of the things and to make it look strange, I would like to give an everyday domestic experience a new meaning. Thus to change the way we perceived the things around us.

Through performance in the full-body sculptural costume, I explore the idea of fiction of the self, the reversion of the identities and extending the boundaries of the imaging. Explore the idea of fantastic, strange and 'other' I produce my wondrous world of curiosities.

Wearable Sculpture Materials: paper, wire, tape, paint

Adapting To The New Reality Of Life Under Lockdown

Through the visual transformation of the human body and creating a disorientated environment in Svetlana's work, she is curious about things that are deemed weird or different. Explore the idea of fantastic, strange and 'other' she produces her wondrous world of curiosities. Inhabited by a creature, neither human nor alien, real or imaginary, these constructed environments bend the fragile boundaries of our perceived reality. Through performance in the full-body sculptural suit, Svetlana explores the idea of fiction of the self, the reversion of the identities and extending the boundaries of the imaging.

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