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Consumer Art

Consumer Art
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    • Consumer Art
    • Sztuka Konsumpcyjna
  • 1974
  • 6 color photographs mounted on wood, 88 x 79 cm
Natalia LL’s body works of the 1970s confront viewers with mythological conditions inscribed into the human body. She deconstructs male and female bodily rituals which are the result of male-induced cultural dominance. According to Gislind Nabakowski, man has to invent both male and female myths in order to maintain a credible position within society. Natalia LL’s video “Consumer Art “ focuses on the myths of sexual and bodily classifications by voluptuously sucking two bananas, bread sticks and other objects of phallic gestalt. The linkage of sign and sculpture puts Natalia LL’s video in line with psychoanalytical approaches of the time and the analysis of the means of phallogocentrism, questioning the privileging of the masculine in understanding the meaning of social relations. Entering the feminist discourse on Western language and its male-engendered politics, Natalia LL combines the female body with objects as male superpositions of a discourse which is organized throughout by implicit recourse to the phallus both as its supposed ground and as its prime signifier and power source. W.S.