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Name: Black Sun and Ring-Fenced Space: Images of Сaptivity in the Art of Sergey Parajanov and Kazuki Yasuo

Authors: E.-B. M. Guchinova

Kalmyk Scientific Center RAS

Abstract: The article is devoted to the art of two outstanding artists – Sergey Paradzhanov (USSR) and Kazuki Yasuo (Japan). Sregey Paradjanov was convicted and spent five years in camps, Yasuo Kazuki found himself in a Soviet camp for prisoners of war. The humiliating experience of the imprisonment of artists was reflected in their works, which did not cease behind barbed wire. But both artists are united by the theme of human freedom in unfree conditions, where the boundaries of freedom can be outlined by the boundaries of a totalitarian state, and by military order at the front, and by barbed wire of a camp fence.Paradzhanov and his camp creativity and outlined – fenced open space. He and Kazuki used bricolage techniques, and the Japanese artist himself composed the composition of colors, since the factory colors do not convey the alien black sun. At the same time, their presence in fundamentally different camps (camps and GUPVI camps) was reflected in the portraits of the prisoners: Parajanov’s campers had no need to survive, and Parajanov painted their colorful faces, tired of hunger and excessive labor, Japanese prisoners of war depersonalized and Kazuki painted them with the same faces. By the way, bodily practices were different: Paradzhanov's fellow campers suffered from syphilis, and Kazuk's fellow campers suffered from dystrophy. Paradzhanov and Kazuki create dolls that, by their own genre, reflect the depersonalization process and the puppet dependence of man in the hands of a totalitarian state. However, the fact that after the camp they became different, that the camp experience remained with the artists forever reflected in their self-portraits and especially in the logo. Sergey Paradzhanov in his logo depicted not only his profile, but also a thumbprint inside the letter C., this shows the prisoner's fingerprint and his unique identity, as well as the barbed wire. Kazuki in his logo shows a self-portrait in which he removed all the details and instead of a human face the captive's working tool appears.

Keywords: trauma language, traumatic past, camp, Gulag, memory

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