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YGRG 154: Body Heat, 31.12.2017, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London

Young Girl Reading Group was established in 2013 by Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė. The epithet derives from Tiqqun’s 1999 publication Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl, which proposes the concept of the Young-Girl, a category identified as neither age nor gender-specific, but rather as a product of consumer society and the epitome of its model citizen

THE YOUNG-GIRL IS THAT WHICH, BEING ONLY THIS, SCRUPULOUSLY OBEYS THE AUTHORITARIAN DISTRIBUTION OF ROLES.
The Young-Girl is the commodity specially assigned to the circulation of standard affects.

YGRG was formed in order to read aloud, to share text collectively as an alternative to solitary reading, and to consider what constitutes a voice in today’s world of social media, celebrity culture and all-encompassing capital. Their concern is to address the underlying system that called forth the Young-Girl and to infiltrate the gendered structure of the Internet. They focus on texts from the history of feminist theory, proposing that such texts are still confined to the arena of counter-culture rather than seen as part of the canon. Their aim is to create a rhizomatic network permeating the system and to promote an alternative gender politics. The experience of collective reading is thus extended into the domain of live performance and selfdocumentation and is mediated through the Internet, social media and immersive installation. The readers inhabit spaces constructed by YGRG in relation to their chosen texts as they read from mobile devices. These constructions suggest a physical augmentation of the text and offer a focus for considering the relationship between the body of the performer, the text being read and the surrounding environment. This latest work presented at Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, Body Heat, deploys quotations from Richard Sennett’s Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (1994) in which he considers the history of the city as told through people’s bodily experience – how they moved, what they heard and smelled, what they wore and how they made love – and suggests that this corporeal relationship to urban architecture is crucial to the history of gender politics. YGRG combine Sennett’s words with selections from other writers including their own writing and the performers lie on a carpet under a heat lamp inscribed with quotations from the collated text. An orange curtain subdivides the room, creating a stage for the performers, while photographs from previous performances function as a backdrop for the performers, as a prop onto which they scratch words during the reading, and later as evidence of the body’s centrality to the installation even in its absence. Throughout the performance and exhibition an aroma-diffuser releases a scent that the artists commissioned from the parfumier Caroline Dumur at IFF Inc. Her brief was to create a smell that embodies the concept of the YoungGirl.

With support of Caroline Dumur and International Flavors and Fragrances Inc, the Lithuanian Embassy in the UK. Documentation: Ari King.

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018 Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018

Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

the Young-Girl is I, II and III, 2017 Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

the Young-Girl is I, II and III, 2017

Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018 Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018

Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018 Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018

Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

YGRG 154: Body Heat [exhibition view]

YGRG 154: Body Heat [exhibition view]

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

she smells of spaces in transition, 2017 Unique hand-scratched drawing on pvc strip curtain. Dimensions - 3000x4000mm

she smells of spaces in transition, 2017

Unique hand-scratched drawing on pvc strip curtain. Dimensions - 3000x4000mm

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

YGRG 154: Body Heat [exhibition view]

YGRG 154: Body Heat [exhibition view]

the Young-Girl is III, 2017 Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

the Young-Girl is III, 2017

Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

the Young-Girl is II, 2017 Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

the Young-Girl is II, 2017

Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

the Young-Girl is I, 2017 Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

the Young-Girl is I, 2017

Unique digital print on aluminium, hand scratched text and drawing. Dimensions: 841x1189 mm

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

she is ready., 2018 Unique. Handmade carpet in wool. Dimensions - 2000x800mm

she is ready., 2018

Unique. Handmade carpet in wool. Dimensions - 2000x800mm

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018 Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

Lit by a lantern, the flame of which, reddens my face., 2018

Engraving on heat lamp. Dimension: 1250x40x90mm.

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

the Young-Girl smells, 2017 Unique hand engraving on aroma diffuser, power bank, oil-based fragrance BODY (produced with support of International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.; in collaboration with Caroline Dumur), capacity of 130ml

the Young-Girl smells, 2017

Unique hand engraving on aroma diffuser, power bank, oil-based fragrance BODY (produced with support of
International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.; in collaboration with Caroline Dumur), capacity of 130ml

the Young-Girl smells, 2017 Unique hand engraving on aroma diffuser, power bank, oil-based fragrance BODY (produced with support of International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.; in collaboration with Caroline Dumur), capacity of 130ml

the Young-Girl smells, 2017

Unique hand engraving on aroma diffuser, power bank, oil-based fragrance BODY (produced with support of
International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.; in collaboration with Caroline Dumur), capacity of 130ml

DOROTA GAWĘDA & EGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ, YGRG 154: Body Heat , 2018.

DOROTA GAWĘDA & EGLĖ KULBOKAITĖ, YGRG 154: Body Heat , 2018.

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

BODY I, 2017 Aluminium bottle, 250 ml oil-based fragrance produced in collaboration with Caroline Dumur from International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. Edition of 10

BODY I, 2017

Aluminium bottle, 250 ml oil-based fragrance produced in collaboration with Caroline Dumur from
International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.
Edition of 10

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018 Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis

Young Girl Reading Group 154: Body Heat , 2018

Performance with: Anastasiia Fedorova and Ella Plevin, Uccella Khan and Christos Petritzis