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LUBLJANA
ECLIPSE
QUESTION: When did you start doing
work as Eclipse and why did you choose to adopt that name?
ANSWER: We started using the name Eclipse
in the year 1999, when we started with our first project, The Breakfast
on The Grass. One was a model and the other was a photographer and
we started to work together. It means that one person is behind and
the other one is in the front, like in an eclipse, and we make the
concepts together. It means something special, something that doesn’t
happen every day, curiosity and a beauty that is black and white,
or shape and space... We never use our real names in our project.
When we have performance or exhibition we use just the name Eclipse. |
QUESTION:
In your first project The Breakfast on The Grass, you made an
installation of photographs and dildos on a grass surface. In
your documentation, you select a text by Peter Traven: ‘I
am a domestic satyr, the master of the forest. I am spreading
the vibration that fills up all things in it.” What kinds
of objects did you decide to put between your legs and why?
ANSWER: The objects we chose to put
between legs were completely coincidental. We took everything
that would concern us in everyday life and use it. We were making
the project for more than half a year so we tried to use really
everything – from ideological objects such as the bible,
or Europian Union or communist symbols, to food, hobbies, sports,
and pornodiva stuff. Most of the things we used, we already had
at home. But it was also a real fun to buy food, items like fish
and cow's head, knowing what we were going to use it for! And
some stuff we made by hand. We can't remember anymore which of
us came up with which idea, it was a process - a kind of ecstasy
and so we did everything completely spontaneously, depending just
on our mood of the moment. And then we put all the photographs
in the glass, and also dildos, all these dildos with different
condoms.
QUESTION: I
am curious what kind of woman you want to portray here In Among
sinners and saints lovers I am interested in your fantasies of
naked femininity as a subversive statement.
ANSWER: The photograph was taken
by a photographer Rajko Bizjak, who is also shooting mostly erotic
scenes for himself – that's how we met. For this photograph
we thought of Eve, the first woman, which didn't commit sin with
Adam, but decided to use a snake for sexual satisfaction.
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