Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, "Sulk"

For Move, the duo of artists presents an installation evoking the deconstructed space of a boudoir. The works evoke this space that confined bodies historically, the space of the boudoir restraining forbidden and repressed sexuality, but was also a place of intimate expression and solitary reflection. The installation proposes to engage with the idea of a double corporality – that of the physical body, and another more diffuse and spatially and temporally fragmented corporality. 

The folding screens retain the memory of a past performance presented in Athens, which preserves a fleeting and ghostlike memory of the bodies presented. 

Traces of this performance are also found in the scent diffused in the space by the mysterious and austere metal diffuser, Censer I. RYXPER1126AE is a synthetic recreation using a technology that captures the molecules (headspace) of the scent of the bodies and of the performance by attempting to transmit its sensual experience. It contains various ingredients, including medicinal plants used by women for their curative virtues and as natural contraceptives, reminding us of the importance of women's ancestral knowledge of plants and care spaces. 

The production of RYXPER1126AE scent was made possible thanks to the support of IFF, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.