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LITTLE GIRLS. PART II THE WAR OF THE LITTLE GIRLS<\/p>\n

concept: Ani Vaseva
\nphotography: Ivan Donchev
\ntheory: Boyan Manchev<\/p>\n

with: Elena Dimitrova, Iva Sveshtarova, Ani Vaseva, Margarita Petrova, Milena Stanojevic, Stlla Krusteva, Irina Goleva and Vladyia Mihaylova<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

June 2010, “Vaska Emanuilova” Gallery, Sofia<\/div>\n
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The War Of The Little Girls is an installation consisting of colour photographs of little girls fighting with each other; a human size doll in ambivalent pose with a teddy bear; a monitor with sequence with other pictures of fighting little girls.While today’s socio-economic models produce the \u2018little girl\u2019 as a figure of extreme objectifying \u2013 the perfect, non-resistant, \u2018soft\u2019 object of desire, which is at the same time the ideal educated and non-resistant consumer \u2013 new version of the passive platonic matter, formed by the perfect market forms-products, this project, in response, aims at the radical re-subjectivization of a little girl\u2019s figure: the little girl as an alternative model of subjectivization. Little girls are a form of life associated with whimsical desires and endless infantile pleasure. However, the desire for infinite pleasure is the herald of a vehement force, it nurtures the anarchic power of rebellion. Not surprisingly, \u2018little girls\u2019 today are threatened by being included in the economic systems that exploit any strength of resistance, appropriate its inherent features and transform them into a market lure, into the \u2018face\u2019 of a product.The uncontrollable power of \u2018little girls\u2019 can be easily exploited as an instrument, and turned into a media show pursuing the ultimate goal of production and sale of imagery products. The perverted media-economic spectacle that producec (from Japan to USA) the pink-sentimental image of the Barbi-girl, successfully exploits the regressive pedophile libido of the collective unconscious.<\/p>\n

The War Of The Little Girls criticizes precisely that spectacularity, which reduces the \u2018authentic\u2019 form of life to a lifestyle. The protograpgic images of combating little girls are composed beforehand and pretend to be \u201cspontaneous\u201d, imitating unmediated reflection of accidental situation and play with the gaze of the model, very often \u201cby chance\u201d fixed at the camera. Tension builds up in the images, between the spontaneous, chaotic energy of the little girls and its spectacular, directed media representation.<\/p>\n

The little girls in The War Of The Little Girls are power that could transform into aggression inside the group, making the image of the combating little girls a double parody. On one side this is a parody of the \u201csoft\u201d girl images of perfect \u201cpink\u201d consumers, revealing that (their) world could be free and wild, i.e. full of violence, and on the other side \u2013 a parody of the erotic \u201cmanga\u201d or \u201cgothic\u201d transformation of the little girl in demonic (i.e. sexual) power: the alternative spectacle, exploiting regressive collective libido and colonizing the subjectivation and the imagination of the little girls.<\/p>\n

The War Of The Little Girls is based on the ambivalence, on the semi-darkness. The images are always on the edge; it remains unclear if the little girls are in pain or enjoying themselves, if they are really violent or having fun, if they ask for help or are looking at the lens of the photo camera; there is a doubt what exactly is this little girl doing, enfolding the teddy bear with her legs. The War Of The Little Girls isn\u2019t affirming some free emancipated form of life, but shows that every \u201cemancipatory\u201d, or \u201calternative\u201d ideology inevitably falls into certain mechanisms of representation that lead to media spectacularity. In some sense the media spectacularity is reductive appropriation of those political emancipatory propaganda images. Thus presented the images of the combating little girls show how the \u201cwild\u201d form of life is actually \u201csculptured\u201d in \u201ccult\u201d images; they attempt to explore the mechanisms through which the form of life self-mythologises itself and in the end falls in the trap of the media spectacularity and myth. The operation of composing an \u201cauthentic\u201d image of the form of life produces lifestyle, which on its turn produces new \u201cauthenticity\u201d and its corresponding images. Still, for us, most important remains the point where the spectacularity grip locks its trap upon itself, and criticism is reversed into a validation: the point at which the vehement energy of little girls breaks loose, or cannot be at all subjected to the control of the media-economic show; the point where it becomes a joyful affirmation.<\/p>\n

Boyan Manchev<\/p>\n

Article in Literaturen Vestnik, p 6<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LITTLE GIRLS. PART II THE WAR OF THE LITTLE GIRLS concept: Ani Vaseva photography: Ivan Donchev theory: Boyan Manchev with: Elena Dimitrova, Iva Sveshtarova, Ani Vaseva, Margarita Petrova, Milena Stanojevic, Stlla Krusteva, Irina Goleva and Vladyia Mihaylova June 2010, “Vaska Emanuilova” Gallery, Sofia The War Of The Little Girls is an installation consisting of colour … THE WAR OF THE LITTLE GIRLS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-little-girls","tag-the-war-of-the-little-girls"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t