The Right One: Pearls of Revolution
2010
Multiple, 10 x (112 x 112 cm).
Materials: ink, paper
The Right One: Pearls of Revolution is a series of photographs that borrow the glamorous visual appearance of glossy fashion advertisements, but the images, featuring the feminist sociologist and activist Jana Šarinić, have not been digitally edited. Each photograph shows a slightly different frame of the model’s face as she rehearses the gesture of the partisan salute to determine which one matches ‘the right one’ as executed in a small archival photograph of Yugoslav women partisans. The model’s made-up face and the string of pearls she holds in her hand while trying to match the partisan salute create an contradictory situation that asks about the commodification of critical action and the idea of artistic autonomy today.
