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Winner and Runner-Up at the Bodyart Festival Serbia

15/10/2019

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In October 2019, the Belgrade Fair in Serbia hosted the Bodyart Festival Serbia, organized by Radmila Radman with support from Alex Barendregt of the World Bodypainting Association. The festival featured competitions in various categories, including body painting and face painting.​​

Winner of the Face Painting Competition

  • Theme: "Beings from the Future"
  • Model: Jana​
Lynn secured first place with her face painting titled "Human Laboratory." The design presented a cyborg skull face that, upon closer inspection, revealed intricate details: a kneeling cyborg with wings, artificial embryos, and adults connected to machines. The piece explored speculative futures where biotechnology and artificial intelligence redefine human reproduction and identity.

2nd Place in Body Painting Competition

  • Theme: "Inner Fears"
  • Model: Marina
  • Assistant: Marco​
Lynn Schockmel achieved second place with her piece titled "Entomophobia Warrior." The artwork depicted a narrative of a girl confronting her fear of insects, symbolized through jewel beetle armor elements. The story illustrated the transformation of fear into strength, as the protagonist learns to appreciate the beauty of jeweled beetles, turning her phobia into empowerment.

2nd place at the Body Painting Competition:

Lynn Schockmel body painting winner
Lynn Schockmel made 2nd place at the Body Painting Awards
Theme of the Body Painting Awards: “Inner Fears”
Lynn painted her model Marina, together with her assistant Marco as a “Entomophobia warrior” with jewel beetle armor elements to represent the fight against insect fear.

Story:
There was once a girl living with “entomophobia”, the fear of insects. She endeavored to avoid all encounters and situations where any insect could possibly be. The visual triggers of multiple appendages, eyes, skin textures brought on panic and hysteria anytime she met one of these creepy crawlies. She felt cornered, unsafe and unclean. Her personal space ever more constricted with their ever-increasing numbers and unending spread. Her life was forever being impacted by her fear, restricting her movements and driving her away from the world around her. She knew it was irrational, of course it was, but she couldn’t control her reactions, they owned her.
Finally, a bit like a cocooning caterpillar preparing for change, she finally chose to fight against it and conquer her emotions. She studied them, watched them, learnt about them and discovered beauty that she hadn’t previously seen or considered: Jeweled beetles. They were beautiful, the iridescent sparkling colors, all colors of the spectrum and harmless in nature. Overtime, she managed to get closer to those beetles and slowly turned her fears, into strengths.
But her battle wasn’t over yet….
Some pictures of the work (photos by Marco Mazzini):

Winner at the Face Painting Competition:

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Theme of the Face Painting Awards: “Beings from the Future”
Lynn painted the face of her model Jana as a “Human Laboratory”. The first impression  was meant to look like a cyborg skull face, but when you look closer other elements were showing up: A kneeling cyborg (on the nose) with wings (on the eyebrows) exerting control over artificial pregnancy (embryos on the cheeks) and grown-ups (on the lips/teeth) who are still connected to the machine. The feet of the cyborg look like the skulls nostrils. A human who didn't had the perfect DNA is burning in a capsule on the model's forehead. 

​Story:
We live in an era of extinction. Capital flows, industrial infrastructures, molecules, affects, techno-scientific enterprises with robots, androids and hybrids who are engendering human life, while unraveling ecological communities and multi species worlds.
In this speculative future motherhood, the work of insemination, pregnancy, delivery, and care of the newborn is now being radically transformed by new techno-scientific prosthetics, artificial wombs and contractual arrangements. Contemporary biotechnologies are modifying and subverting reproductive conventions, Gene editing tools, synthetic biology, digital algorithms, and sperm banks are remaking germ plasma and reconfiguring horizons of desire and care for the human species.
Some pictures of the work (photos by Marco Mazzini):
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