Zofia Kulik, Self-Portrait with the Palace (Mandorla) | City of Women | Slovenia

Museum Workshops | City of Women
Museum Workshops | City of Women
Zofia Kulik, Self-Portrait with the Palace (Mandorla) | City of Women | Slovenia
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The talk evolves around the tensions of opposites that can be seen in the collage (aggression – gentleness, static – dynamic, entrapment – governing) and analyse its highly-centralized composition, in the middle of which is a nude female figure with Marian symbolism, surrounded by seraphs. As if the author played with ideals and objects of devotion, there are two stars covering the female figure, symbols of ideology and heaven. Just as subverted seems to be the phallic symbolic in the weapon the artist is holding, as if she undermined its destructiveness by appropriating it.