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Exhibition “The Breasts of Tiresias”
03/11/2012 @ 20:00 - 22:00
The exhibition “The Breasts of Tiresias” by Slavica Veselinović (Shavi Lavi), artist from Ljubljana, Slovenia, is being opened on November 3rd 2012 at 8 pm in the gallery of University library “Svetozar Marković” in Belgrade.
The project “The Breasts of Tiresias” consists of 15 photos and 3 photos in combination with graphics. The concept of photos represents the beauty of human body through movement and reflection of emotional states.
Photos depict surreal poses of female and male figures, sensuality, contrast of darkness and light, eroticism and innocence.
The project was named after the ballet by the French author Guilaume Apollinaira, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, who describeh his ballet as something more than reality and for the first time used the word surrealism.
In Greek mythology, Tiresias was a blind prophet famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years, therefore understanding the pleasures of both man and woman.
If followed in numerical order the series of acts describes Tiresias’ transformation from male into female and vice versa.
Male and female bodies face the passion thus creating surrealistic figures which is associated with Tiresias’ transformation into the opposite sex.
The exhibition is open for visitors till November 7th at the Gallery of the University library in Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra Street, no 71.
