(from the project “Wave”)
The series of photographs “Blondes” tests imagination and stereotypes of beauty. Inciuraite uses models that may be blonde but might not be statistically beautiful, or may be older than the canon of beauty allows. How do we consider a black and white photograph that does not give away the actual color of the photographed woman’s hair? Perhaps these are grey-haired women? Or maybe the hair color does not matter at all? On the whole, are all the women photographed from behind and not showing their face older women? And are there any men among them?
The mutability of feminine identity in the photographs destabilizes our comprehension: forcing us to establish priorities and decide – what is more intriguing the visible or the invisible?**
** In her earlier work Kristina Inciuraite most often refused to demonstrate women’s figures and showed an empty stage filled with women’s voices. In her short videos the woman was represented through her voice, which would make the spectator imagine what the speaking woman was. Today the artist enacts the game “visible-invisible” related with the woman and her environment by using different means – a graphic ornament, clothes, photographic art etc.