Kozyra

non so piu

non so piu

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"Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio..."
(I no longer know what I am or what I do) continues Kozyra's infiltration of social groups and situations where she does not naturally belong.

This multi channel video installation tracks the artist's apprenticeship and immersion in two seemingly disparate circles: Berlin drag queens scene and the world of opera singing. Taken under the wing of well known drag queen Gloria Viagra, Kozyra learns the intricate rituals and participates in Gloria's life while simultaneously taking lessons in operatic singing leading to her own performance of an aria from Marriage of Figaro. Parallel in their emphasis on extreme artifice, high drama and spectacle the two worlds merge into one, and, with an artist at its center, create a twisted fairy tale study of unreal dreams and desires.

The installation consists of a short, projected movie "trailer" and a labirynth-like installation of nine videos in the second gallery, each presented on a monitor in a separate curtained space. The narrative unfolds with no prescribed order, the viewers can make their own path through the maze and follow the story.

The project has been produced during Kozyra's ongoing DAAD art residency in Berlin. Like her other recent works, it explores transgendering of her subjects to question who is who in prescribed gender roles and to blur the distinctions of masculinity and femininity. The tile is taken from the first line in the Cherubino's aria from Marriage of Figaro by W.A. Mozart.