Gleb Maiboroda

Cross-cloth

The four cloths create a space,
layers curl and into each other.
The portraits from the archive reference to the cloths,
taking the advantage of speaking for themselves.

All of the elements are intertwined and separated.

They have to whisper the time they once were in;
and create a space for you right now.

Eyes, mouths and nostrils are looking at you,
at each other,
nowhere.

They are emerging from the insides of the cloths.

Everyday objects suggesting an autonomy,
however so alive once touched.
Organizing a group, a block, an army …
anonymous dancers, fighters and walkers.

Hand-woven body casts erecting the heads of their wearers.

The humble cloths,
an agreement between two:
the body of a maker and the other kind of a body.

About the maker

Gleb Maiboroda’s (1994) work covers a different variety of media and techniques: weaving, felting, performance, photography and text, where his image archive is a prime point of his source and reference. The essential drive in Gleb’s research is the study of the binary opposites in gender and culture. The possibility of the two or more crossed together in one’s body and identity, have a major attention in Gleb’s work.

His fascination with the body usually results into wearable pieces created for a specific wearer. Challenging the already established understanding of things, his strive is to suggest new interpretations and possibilities. By testing the values of the bodily related objects, Gleb rediscovers other ways of their autonomy derived from the relationship with the human perception.