Inciting Force cycle 2012—2019

Inciting Force (first show) 2012
The Moon Shines Like Brass 2018—2019
Destroyed Piano 2015
Traffic Papers 2014—2018

Photo series

On the Other Side 2021
To Be at Sword’s Points 2016—2019
Not Alain Delon 2016—2018
Reflections since 2010
HEroic 2016
A Double Self-Portrait 2015
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To Be at Sword’s Points

2016 - 2019



A series of self-portraits "To Be at Sword’s Points" (2016-2019) is part of the "Inciting Force" project.
This is a reference to the traditional Georgian dance with daggers. 
The images printed on metal plates are gesture frames of the author's performance, which has a verified drama, where each previous “frame” is a continuation and development of the next. In the series, the symbolism of metal is important, which the artist repeatedly uses in her works as a conceptually expressive material. 
Using a multi-layered structural-semiotic language, Zhanna Gladko, in her series of self-portraits, examines and transcodes well-known cultural symbols, icons that have emerged in art, literature, cinema, mass media,
as well as mythological symbols, superstitions associated with various phenomena, replicated in society as a stereotype.
In the series "On Knives" it is the symbolism of weapons (swords, daggers); typical stable expressions: "on knives", "knife behind the back", "on the edge of a knife", "like a knife on", "knife in", etc .; superstitions: "cutting the hair with a knife", "knife on the table", "crossed knives", etc.

In 2019, the series was supplemented with an installation with knives, on which expressions were printed, characteristic of modern femme, queer, gender discourse, emphasizing conflict, fragmentation, polarity, and at the same time the layering and mixing of various critical fields.