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The conceptual relationship between soap and language can be found in a combination of bodily and linguistic games, in a chain of associations. In the Western world these associations can be found in cultural mythology, familiar to us all, e.g. Pilate washing his hands of guilt etc. In mass culture soap has become a common word referring to a cultural phenomenon, a best-seller or a TV series. At the same time we could consider soap as an intimate and ritualistic companion that belongs to everyday life. Washing is a sensual bodily action during which the soap reacts to the skin and excretions of the body, touching the most hidden surfaces. In the case of Põder, who has for years been connected to Surrealist wrenches and Pop Art's absurd language games and forms, soap has expectedly been transformed into a shape of cow's tongue, or other any anatomical fragment that at first sight might seem slightly cruel. Juta Kivimäe

Anu Põder
Tongues

 
Artist: Anu Põder (1947 - 2013)
Title: Tongues
Date: 1998
Technique:
Material:

soap, aluminium
Description: The conceptual relationship between soap and language can be found in a combination of bodily and linguistic games, in a chain of associations. In the Western world these associations can be found in cultural mythology, familiar to us all, e.g. Pilate washing his hands of guilt etc. In mass culture soap has become a common word referring to a cultural phenomenon, a best-seller or a TV series. At the same time we could consider soap as an intimate and ritualistic companion that belongs to everyday life. Washing is a sensual bodily action during which the soap reacts to the skin and excretions of the body, touching the most hidden surfaces. In the case of Põder, who has for years been connected to Surrealist wrenches and Pop Art's absurd language games and forms, soap has expectedly been transformed into a shape of cow's tongue, or other any anatomical fragment that at first sight might seem slightly cruel.

Juta Kivimäe
Exhibition history: 2017 Kumu exhibition Anu Põder. Be Fragile! Be Brave!
Related categories: Contemporary Art
Copyright notice: Art Museum of Estonia
AME collection: Sculpture collection
Collection number: S 1740/1-15
Accretion number: EKM j 49069/1-15
File info: Source type: digital photography
File type: TIF
File size: 85.61MB
Resolution: 7343*4074px @ 300dpi
 
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