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Strip/verb gerund or present participle: stripping 1. 1. remove all coverings from.

Through the divestment of more than one existing clutter, I ask myself, and probably the author as well, what is hiding behind these covers, what is the truth, and whether is human nature or social structure the one that precipitates, presuming that in general there is absolute truth?

If the main subject is a man and the starting point are all the stereotypes related to sex, gender, sexual identification, and affiliation… Builds on previous information, by Freud, that a man as an individual is both a man and/or woman, which means us. From that claim, the problem is interpreted, by a visual approach, as a strip of all redundant information to provide insight into the singularity and call for unity.

If the main subject of the work is the overall grouping or the division of human aggregation, then the author polemics about the naturalness and artificiality of this phenomenon, which almost always results in labeling and intolerance. Us and them.

The translucent paper evokes, that in the end, I ask myself the question of whether and when to strip to clean and transparent. In this attempt of ours, as part of a complex system, we remain neither here nor there, vague in some gray area together and alone, same but different, and vice versa.

Artists Anastasija Velichkovska and Ana Jovanovska