The Breasts of Tiresias by SHAVI LAVI

★ Part V of the series of articles for STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4 with the topic "Re-Thinking PUNK!".
This article refers to the sub-topic "Androgyny / Fetish / Queerness".

Cygne noir...self-portrait (by Shąvi Ląvi)

Multimedia Artist and Photographer SLAVICA VESELINOVIC (aka SHAVI LAVI) from Ljubljana (Slovenia) will soon arrive in Berlin to show her exhibition "The Breasts of Tiresias" exclusively for our STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4 project on 17th of January 2014 during Berlin Fashion Week at URBAN SPREE in Friedrichshain...

Slavica Veselinovic (Shąvi Ląvi) 2010 / 2013

I'm very happy that our wonderful and lovely long-distance cooperations from the past (like her amazing photo shoots of Popsimonova in Degenerotika fashion designs and of Degenerotika's 'Nevermore-Collection') this time finally can take the shape of her personally joining our project here in Berlin. I've been waiting and we all have been waiting for her passionately all the time!!! But as she beautifully said to her wonderful friends on NYE a year ago:

"31.12.2012 Ljubljana - Berlin - Belgrade: Separation exists only in human mind!" 

♥

Shąvi - always hard working with her pictures. (^.^)

Here are some first impressions of her great exhibition “Tiresijeve grudi” ("The Breasts of Tiresias") shown before in two solo exhibitions, one at gallery "Univerzitetska biblioteka Svetozar Marković" in Belgrade (Serbia) where she lived for three years, and another solo exhibition in Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenia) at KMKC kompleks. Beside other magazines, the Serbian issue of ELLE has reported on her work in a bigger article.

So take a close watch... at

Shąvi writes:

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 play by the French author Guilaume Apollinaire, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, who described 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. HE IS A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF A SYMBIOTIC ENTITY CONSISTING OF A MAN AND WOMAN, DARKNESS AND LIGHT, MOVEMENT AND IMMOBILITY. Male and female bodies meet with passion thus creating surrealistic figures which is associated with Tiresias' transformation into the opposite sex. There is a strong connection between the notion and the meaning of transformation and the most intrinsic parts of human psychology dating from mythological times and stories. Tiresias embodies all the connotations and ideas of transformation of the prehistoric and civilized man combining it with the soul-machine of mechanical posture, dance and movement in general depicted in the photos.

 



I feel honoured and thrilled that this amazing artist will attend with her work to our Night of Fashion, Performances, Arts & Music. So don't miss her exhibition! And...

Shąvi Ląvi, welcome to Berlin!!!

 

Photographic Arts exhibition

Shąvi Ląvi "The Breasts of Tiresias"

is to be seen at

STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 4

Night of Fashion, Performances, Arts & Music

- Re-Thinking PUNK! -

feat. Schen, Näd Mika, Clea Cutthroat and many many others

Berlin Fashion Week - Fr 17^thJanuary 2014

21.30 - 5.00 h

URBAN SPREE

Revaler Str. 99 (x Warschauer Str.)
10245 Berlin-Friedrichshain
S + U 1Warschauer Str.

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DEGENEROTIKA Nevermore

In düsteren, von Einsamkeit oder Verlust geprägten Zeiten sehnen wir uns oft nach Romantik, Trost, Hoffnung und Erlösung. Shąvi Ląvi (Slavica Veselinovic), eine unserer großartigen Photograph*innen, hat uns die Erstveröffentlichung ihrer phantastischen Photos der neuen Degenerotika-Kollektion Nevermore überlassen. Das ist wahnsinnig lieb und ich bin unheimlich gerührt über diese Geste. Ihre Photo-Strecke ist inspiriert von Edgar Allan Poes berühmtem Gedicht Der Rabe (The Raven). Hier also ist die wundervolle neue Kollektion von Degenerotika:

In dark times marked by loneliness or loss, we often long for romance, consolation, hope and salvation. One of our great photographers, Shąvi Ląvi (Slavica Veselinovic), let us be the first to publish her fantastic photos of Degenerotika's new collection Nevermore. That is incredibly sweet of her and I am deeply moved by her gesture. Her series of photos is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem The Raven. So here is Degenerotika's wonderful new collection:

NEVERMORE (New Collection 2013 by Degenerotika)

 Darkness there and nothing more

Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
  Nameless here for evermore.

Und ich dachte, wär’s doch Morgen, und vergebens wollt’ ich borgen

Von den Büchern and’res Denken, als an das, was ich verlor.

An das Engelskind im Himmel, einstens meine Leonor’.

Ach, ich blieb doch wie zuvor.

 Lenore

Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
  Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'

Willst Du jetzt nicht von mir lassen? Du entfliehst doch über Nacht,
Wie die Freunde, wie die Hoffnung, die einst hat bei mir gewacht.

Nimmermehr! darauf er sagt.

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
  Of "Never-nevermore."'

Wie das eine laute Wort scheuchte tiefe Stille fort,

Er vielleicht nur Solches spricht, wie es ihm sein Herr gelehrt,

Der auch einsam war und leidend und von aller Freude scheidend,

Bis sein Herz und auch sein Leben von dem Unglück ward zerstört

Und des herben Schmerzes Fülle bald auch seinen Sang beschwert,

Nimmermehr das Glück begehrt.

the chair where Lenore once sat

And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
   Shall be lifted - nevermore!

Ach! sein Schatten ragt so düster in der Lampe Purpurschein,
Meine Seele wird, ich fürchte, sich von dieses Schattens Dräu’n
Nimmermehr wohl ganz befrei’n.

Credits:
Photography & editing by Shąvi Ląvi (Slavica Veselinovic)
Clothes: Degenerotika clothing (new collection)
Styling: Thea B. Adora
MUA: Thea B.Adora & Diana Valant
Hair: Matej Komar
Models: Filip Ford, Diana Valant

English poems: outtakes of Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven (1845)
German translation: Elise von Hohenhausen - Der Rabe (1853)

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www.notjustalabel.com/degenerotika

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HOUSE OF ADORA

Schreinerstr. 10

10247 Berlin

★ SHAVI LAVI

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More great pictures by SHAVI LAVI in this blog:
POPSIMONOVA trägt DEGENEROTIKA

More about DEGENEROTIKA in this blog (from STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 2):
POPSIMONOVA trägt DEGENEROTIKA
Video-Outtakes of POPSIMONOVA live in DEGENEROTIKA fashion design (Pt. I) 
Video-Outtakes of POPSIMONOVA live in DEGENEROTIKA fashion design (Pt. II) 
POPSIMONOVA live in DEGENEROTIKA fashion design 
Stylish at a night like this

We'll meet at

STYLE! IT! TAKES! # 3

Summer Evening of Fashion, Performances & Music

Sa 6 July 2013

17.30 - 24.00 h

CHALET Summer Garden 
Vor dem Schlesischen Tor 3
10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg

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