In Uzbekistan people say « Bolali uy bozor, bolasiz uy mozor ». That means «The house with children is a bazaar, the house without is a cemetery». Uzbek people love children and call them the flowers of life, so where the name of the project comes from.
Within this project, messages are written and a flower is presented next to each statement, the thight or the dream of the child. The number of flower petals represents the age of the child. Since when a person dies, and especially so young, he remains forever young in his memory, naturally as long as the memory of that person lives on. Flowers are inherently ephemeral and fleeting. I wanted to convey precisely the nature of the memory of these children and of course to remind people of the happiness that we, living people today, actually possess, but do not always realize.
Children are the life flowers by Stella Polare
Main Stella Polare projects have the objective to apply and to develop the concept of the vitaculture to all the spheres of the life. Vitaculture is the joy urgency. Today, Stella Polare is interested at how the vitaculture is executed: people, women and men, society, some particular defined people, letter H in the French language and others.
2020 – Crown of Tretyakovskaya Prize holder for « Minotaur » lockdown drawing
2020 – Muhammad project, Collective exhibition in Karakalpakstan art gallery.
2020 – co-organizer of the “Living Thoughts” project in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Ruhsor and the team of artists from Uzbekistan at the Bukhara State Museum.
2019 – « Silk Road » project 2019 at the event of the same name at the Château d´Asnières, France
2019 – Project “Children – Flowers of Life” at the Bukhara State Museum as part of “Dialogue”, organized by Normurod Negmatov; Sputnik magazine recognized the Stella Polare project as the most touching project of the entire Dialogue event.
Main Stella Polare projects have the objective to apply and to develop the concept of the vitaculture to all the spheres of the life. Vitaculture is the joy urgency. Today, Stella Polare is interested at how the vitaculture is executed: people, women and men, society, some particular defined people, letter H in the French language and others.
2020 – Crown of Tretyakovskaya Prize holder for « Minotaur » lockdown drawing
2020 – Muhammad project, Collective exhibition in Karakalpakstan art gallery.
2020 – co-organizer of the “Living Thoughts” project in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Ruhsor and the team of artists from Uzbekistan at the Bukhara State Museum.
2019 – « Silk Road » project 2019 at the event of the same name at the Château d´Asnières, France
2019 – Project “Children – Flowers of Life” at the Bukhara State Museum as part of “Dialogue”, organized by Normurod Negmatov; Sputnik magazine recognized the Stella Polare project as the most touching project of the entire Dialogue event.
In Uzbekistan people say « Bolali uy bozor, bolasiz uy mozor ». That means «The house with children is a bazaar, the house without is a cemetery». Uzbek people love children and call them the flowers of life, so where the name of the project comes from.
Within this project, messages are written and a flower is presented next to each statement, the thight or the dream of the child. The number of flower petals represents the age of the child. Since when a person dies, and especially so young, he remains forever young in his memory, naturally as long as the memory of that person lives on. Flowers are inherently ephemeral and fleeting. I wanted to convey precisely the nature of the memory of these children and of course to remind people of the happiness that we, living people today, actually possess, but do not always realize.
Hereby the videos that reflects the unrealised memories, unrealised future of the children dead from in cancer. They are all in différent languages of the world. The form the artist has chosen is blurry as memories in our heads that are not fixed.
With my videos, Stella Polare wanted to show exactly this transition, which is more suitable than ever to memories and unfulfilled dreams. She wanted to make it interactive, so she has chosen that the sound would be recreated at each new diffusion. As during her UNESCO speech the sound of the video was the translation of the messages. This video contains the dreams of the children, the messages are in Chinese, Uzbek, English, French, Spanish, Arab and Osetin languages.
Stella Polare Speach at UNESCO Exposition wearing the yellow dress, the symbol of the ribbon sensibilisation to childhood cancers
Performance « The dreams of sick children, who have died of cancer », one of Stella Polare’s main projects. These are the dreams, thoughts of children inscribed on yellow ribbons, 2019, Boukhara Museum, , curator Normurod Negmatov, 2019
The project “You have a letter”
under the curation of Normurod Negmatov was dedicated to transmitting scelled letters to everyone who comes to the instituions of the art Moulin jaune dans la region parisien (Jeltaya Melcina Slavi Polunina, eto kloun u nego ochen silnaya strategiya schatya) and Aysel gallery in Samarkand. The innovation of this project consisted in that obligation the visitor to read it at home (out of context pf art) in private. The scelled phrase was the message from the ill children «I’m happy». Thus, the message went out of the art context and the message readers became the authors of the phrase, deleting the place of the artiste. The phrase automatically become their own as it starts by «I…» Since he or she read it alone, at the level of physiological reflexes he felt how true it was that he was reading.
Children come to this world from the abstract to the figurative world. At birth, he or she will acquire a name, as well as a vocabulary with specific meanings. The last have more or less the same meaning depending the languages. Living a “figurative” life, the child’s body dies and thus it goes nowhere. The state between the the start of living and the end is expressed in this. The life the ill and dead child could live could live but did not.
Projet #, présented during the Biennale of contemporary art, 2018, Tachkent, Ouzbékistan
Today new technologies are part of our daily life. With the development of science and the means of communication, progress is accelerating more and more. It improves our lives and gives us hope for a better future. It is the story of a joy urgency of a contemporary man who tries to reference himself as best as possible through his publications on the internet. In search of his fame and the desire to be as well known as possible, the hashtag becomes his primordial liver through which he sees the glow of happiness. But is it really happiness if the hashtag framework can stifle his personality and cause him to lose the connection to his soul? He can forget what real feelings are, or even get trapped by popular hashtags. Then the questions about the true personality of the man arise, about his true feelings. The individual’s inner universe becomes (artificially?) Deep. What about relationships with our intimate surroundings? Is the hashtag a mirror of us? Is this real life? Life? #life?Project « Not me », Festival of experimental thêatre, Samarkand, curator Normurod Negmatov, 2020
Projets principaux de Stella Polare vise à développer et appliquer le concept de vitaculture dans tous les domaines de la vie. La vitaculture est une urgence de joie. Aujourd’hui, Stella Polare s’intéresse à la façon dont chacun exerce sa propre vitaculture.
Discours de Stella Polare à l’UNESCO Stella Polare Speach at UNESCO Exposition
Projet #, présenté lors de la Biennale de l’art contemporain, 2018, Tachkent, OuzbékistanPerformance « Les rêves des enfants malades, qui sont décédés de cancers », un de principaux projets de Stella Polare. Il s’agit des rêves, des pensées des enfants inscrits sur les rubans jaunes , Musée de Boukhara, , curateur Normurod Negmatov, 2019Project « Not me », Festival of experimental thêatre, Samarkand, curateur Normurod Negmatov, 2020Exhibition of the « Patterns of the Uzbek Soul » at Louvre, Paris, 2020Exposition de Stella Polare « Motifs de l’Ame Ouzbèque« , Ambassade d‘Ouzbékistan en France, 2019
Dans son projet dédiée sur le motifs, Stella Polare étudie les symboles liés à la culture ouzbèque dans le contexte du concept de vitaculture, l’urgence de la joie. En effet, elle questionne les aspects visuels des anciens symboles sacrés et analyse les possibilités de nouvelles significations. Les séries «Les motifs de l’âme ouzbek» ont été imaginées et réalisées sur les couches de néoprène pour désigner le terme géologique «strate», vue le sujet était liée aux origines de l’artiste. L’artiste a repris les motifs qui figurent sur les suzani, brodéries nationales ouzbèques tout en gardant la signification de symboles initiaux. L’ornement national ouzbek est un phénomène étonnant par sa beauté et sa grâce. Perçu par beaucoup comme un art décoratif, chaque motif porte un sens, quelque part un caractère curatif et quelque part un caractère protecteur, et quelque part voeux de prospérité et tout le meilleur. L’artiste associe ces motifs au goût de l’enfance, à l’odeur des paysages indigènes, à la voix des grands-parents, à la bénédiction touchante des aînés et font partie intégrante de l’univers artistique de Stella Polare. 12 planches présentés sont les images de cornes de moutons, cotton, les amandes, les scorpions, les concombres et les autres qui figurent sur les suzani. Chacun des tableaux présentés révèle la sensibilité de l’artiste aux symboles et les sens de leur signification pour son âme. Ainsi les suzanis dessinées par sa main deviennent le reflet de la personnalité de l’artiste. Dans le cadre de ce projet Stella Polare a également présenté son autoportrait, un dessin de 10 mètres. Ce dessin représente la beauté de corps de chaque personne et la richesse génétique de chacun(e) possède dans son ADN et devient une partie incontournable dans la diversité de l’humanité. Ayant vécu plus de 10 ans en France, ce projet est la fouille de ses comportements, des paternes innées, programmés dans l’ADN de l’artiste. Puisque le projet touche les racine de l’artiste, il a été exposé à l’Ambassade d’Ouzbékistan en France pour la première fois en mars 2019. Cette série a été présenté au Louvre (2020) et Château d’Asnières (2019).
Stella Polare (Khulkar Yunusova by her real name), Franco-Uzbek artist and graphic designer and designer. She lives and works in Paris, France. The artistic approach of Stella Polare is vitaculture - urgency of joy. It is about the relationship to the time of joy in different people and things. To communicate her artistic approach, Stella Polare organizes the projects and creates the objects. Stella Polare has exhibited at UNESCO, Louvre, Museum of Bukhara. In 2020 she won the Tretyakov Prize. Ignorer
