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RITA LIRA
DESCRIPTION:
A short film that explores the state of exhaustion and the sensation of internal constraints. Transparent ribbons symbolize personal limitations that can be significantly restraining both internally and externally, yet remain completely invisible and incomprehensible to others. The gray liquid represents complex and heavy emotions. Through movement and transparent vessels, the artist seeks a place to "contain" these emotions, as the attempt to keep everything inside feels self-destructive. The video illustrates how forms in architecture, objects, and movement rhyme, demonstrating how intangible emotions or feelings can change scale and take on form, color, and motion.
Site: L’Axe Majeur — monumental sculpture by Dani Karavan, Sergy-Pontoise, 1980 (France).
There is also a version of the project in the form of a live performance.
TEAM:Director and performer:
Rita Lira
DOP:
Anastasiia Krysko
Composer:
Yana Shliabanska
Stylist:
Yuliia Mchedlishvili
Video editor:
Guillaume Lenoble
Color:
Sasha Vakurov
Photo:
Daria Sobolevska
DURATION:video work — 5 min
live performance — 15 min
PREMIERE:Квітень 2024 р.Париж, Франція
SUPPORTED BY:L’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris
TRAILER:
Rita studied contemporary dance in Kyiv. In her work, she combines contemporary dance, street dance styles, visual and documentary art. Her artistic work is closely connected with theory and reflections on the theme of mental traps, as well as reflections on the experiences of war and displacement. Rita’s performances were presented in France, Lituania, Romania, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine. She is also a member of the UA Contemporary Dance Platform. In 2022 Rita was forced to leave Ukraine. She moved to Paris, where she spent a year on a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts. Here she created and presented her performances "The Way from/to" and "The Trap."
She has recently completed the Hérodote education program at the Beaux-Arts de Paris during the 2023-2024 academic year. Currently she is a part of the international project “Moving Borders” organized by Aerowaves (Partners: Tanec Praha Festival, Czech Republic; Arte Sella, Italy; La Briqueterie, France).
CONTACTS:e-mail: moc.liamg%40kszls.atir+380 96 44 777 50+33 7 48 31 82 31
OTHER WORKS:
THE WAY FROM/TOGRAYED OUT
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