| Abstract [eng] |
An idea of the Master's Thesis 'Stigmata' has arisen upon turning the attention to a phenomenon, when a person distinguishes by some feature, the mark of physical, psychological or social irregularity and this mark is very different from the norms established culturally. The aim of the research is to create a cycle of textile objects 'Stigmata' upon the analysis of the literature of religious studies, history of art, psychology and sociology on the topic under research, examination of creative analogies, selection of the most important ideas for the topic of research and preparation of their unique interpretation. In the theoretical part of the research, we discuss the field of meanings of the concept ‘stigma’ focusing separately on presentation of Christian and contemporary contexts of the phenomenon, analyse transformations of psychological vulnerability and personal sameness by discussing the sameness as a process of social identity as well as the psychological influence of the stigma on behaviour and self-esteem of a person, and present the interpretations of the 'stigma' phenomenon in art. We have described the process of creation of five textile objects. At the end of the paper, we have presented our conclusions, recommendations, a list of references, and appendices. The creative part of the research consists of five textile objects, each intended to interpretation of the experiences of a separate stigmatized group of people. The first and the second objects convey the conditions of persons experiencing dependence on different intoxicating substances - they are sort of similar, but at the same time different and this is conveyed by encoded symbolic forms. The third one describes a dire story of a woman's blight. The fourth represents a suggestion about once-high personal self-esteem, however marked by a fall. The fifth one encodes a controversial status - the conflict between an assumed, supposed \"ego\" and the real \"ego\" existing already beyond the human culture. Forms of the textile objects are construed so as if they make an impression of hollow \"shells\" with and at the same time without a person inside them by emphasizing the contexts of identity fall, secession from the society and oneself, as well as acquired stigmata. The creative idea is realized through three-dimensional forms of textile materials. |
