The Body of the City explores the pose and the immobility imposed upon it by the gaze as a space for phantasmic encounters and erotic games. Hers is the wandering woman who appropriates the post-industrial cityscape with the presence of her eroticized body, randomly appearing in different poses. She opens up the possibility of the imaginary, phantasmic realm within the semiotic field of the city landscape: she is its cartographer, the owner and master of signs, and at the same time, the one whose body is mapped and placed within this sign system. She occupies the margins of the city, the metallurgic waste abandoned to its peripheries, but at the same time, she also appropriates the commercial space of billboards and advertisements by investing her body into the system of commodity circulation, the obsessive realm of production, consumption, and appropriation. / Angela Harutyunyan

Medium: Photo collage series Dimensions: A3 cm Date: 2004