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GROWING UP IN A FAMILY OF ARTISTS ( PENS, PAINTS AND CANVAS WERE ALWAYS AT HAND AND THUS FACILITATED ONA'S ACCESS TO ART IN A PLAYFUL WAY. AS A LITTLE GIRL PLAYING FOOTBALL IN THE ALLEYS OF ZURICH'S OLD TOWN WAS SOON NO LONGER ENOUGH FOR HER AND THE CAREER OF A PASSIONATE ARTIST BECAME APPARENT EARLY ON. THE WORK OF ONA IS ALWAYS VERY PERSONAL AND AUTHENTIC, SHAPED BY HER OWN EXPERIENCES, HER UNRESTRAINED ENERGY, HER MELANCHOLY, HER HOPE AND HER UNWAVERING BELIEF IN THE FUTURE. AS IN THE ARISTOTELIAN TRAGEDY IN ANCIENT GREECE - IN WHICH THE SPECTATOR FELT FEAR (PHOBOS) AND PITY (ELEOS), BUT THEN PURIFIED AND MENTALLY CLEANSED - THE VIEWER OF ONA'S WORKS ALSO EXPERIENCES SUCH A CATHARSIS, A PURIFICATION OF THE SOUL.
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WHEN ONE GETS INVOLVED IN ONA'S ART, IT SEEMS LIKE A CATHARSIS: ATTRACTED BY THE LIGHTNESS, CONFRONTED WITH THE COMPLEX MIRROR IMAGE, REDEEMED BY THE POSITIVE FUTURE PROSPECTS. MANY DETAILS AND SNAPSHOTS IN ONA'S WORKS MAKE THIS TRUST IN LIFE CLEAR. IN THE END, THEY ALWAYS SHOW US THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE FUTURE HOLDS READY FOR US. AT THE SAME TIME, HOWEVER, THEY HOLD THE MIRROR OF LIFE BEFORE OUR EYES AND THUS INITIATE THOUGHT PROCESSES. PENETRATED BY HER OWN EXPERIENCE OF BEING OPEN AND EQUALLY CONTEMPLATIVE, HER WORKS SEEM EASILY ACCESSIBLE. HER ARTISTIC WORK IS CHARACTERIZED BY BOTH LIGHTNESS AND DEPTH. “It is a great crystallization of this moment in time and women’s place in art and Instagram.BORN IN ZURICH IN 1992, ONA SADKOWSKY HAS ALREADY GATHERED A STRONG FOLLOWING DESPITE HER YOUNG AGE AND IS CONSIDERED ONE OF TODAY’S MOST ASPIRING YOUNG ARTISTS IN SWITZERLAND. “I’m thankful that it happened,” she said. The engagement boosts the algorithm, ultimately driving more followers and traffic Ona’s way.Įven though Schrager would have preferred credit for appearing in the viral photos, she’s still pleased with its widespread popularity. “The negative comments are just part of the trade,” she says. Ona charges fans $30 a month to subscribe and see all nude photographs and videos on her Snapchat and NSFW website, and $500 an hour for private sex-cam sessions. The persona is also a way for Schrager to make a living. It’s just censorship, sexism, and misogyny.” But that puts a huge damper on the performative and earning potentials of female artists. Currently, it’s just written off as not art. I think arousal or sexuality is just another material, like oil or acrylic, and that it should be taken seriously and considered in art criticism. This has been repeated to me over and over by dealers, gallerists, colleagues,” she said, “and I just don’t believe this has to be the case in the long run. “As soon as a woman posts a photo that can be interpreted as sexual, then it is not art. Leah Schrager, Angles on Women (2019) at the Montauk Beach House. “Then, while DMing these huge meme pages asking to be credited, I ran into resistance from men who felt it was their right to show my body without naming me and who even ridiculed me for trying to be identified.” “At first, everyone posted it without tagging me, which I consider image theft,” Schrager wrote on her website. Schrager is also the subject of the boutique hotel’s current exhibition, “ Unprotected Specs,” organized with East Hampton art gallery Roman Fine Art. The overtly sexualized online persona, which goes by the handle is a cam girl who has embraced objectification-and amassed 3 million followers since her Instagram debut in 2015. It was meant to be presented as the work of an alter ego she calls “Ona.” Her actions by the pool were actually part of her first live performance, which she titled Angles on a Woman. By then the video already had over one million views and the clip quickly went viral on Instagram meme accounts from there.
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