EXHIBITION: LOVE/HATE

   Memory (Installation)

 
In my art I have been exploring the balance between the opposites for more than a decade. It strikes me how limited our world is. We constantly compare, we evaluate, we choose sides. The opposites attracts, but do they? I am not interested in one or another. I am interested in what is in-between. How do we get there and why. LOVE /HATE is a series of various mediums works where the same idea has been explored. I often return back to older works and try to understand what has changed and how do I react to the same thing. Memory has always fascinated me and how it reflects on our past and on our future actions.

Over the last few years, I have been restlessly inventing and re-inventing startling ephemeral objects from a diverse range of household materials from bags, threads, pencils, spaghetti, plastic wrap etc. I often create installations using a combination of sculptural elements and found, or collected, objects and bring them together. This is art that explores the relationship between the everyday and the special (art experience) focusing on a transformation that produces beauty. My interest is in the magic of ordinary events and the desire to find a balance, which results in almost scientific equations, where numbers are replaced with objects or shapes.

   “Fate of Polarities”
                                                                                        (Wall Installation)





“LOVE/HATE”
( Mixed Media Paintings)

At a young age, people associate very early with strong emotions of love and of hate. These are often associated with food.
I still have the memory of loving objects such as cutlery, plates, napkins, teaspoons etc. What I loved was the way in which I could arrange the (everyday objects) spoons or cups and the “process” of food.

These pieces are my reconstruction of that obsession. The objects become self-reflective and they release themselves. They are materiality. They start an intimate relationship with each other and the outside world becomes break down of what is fantasy and what is reality.

Objects, which exist on their own, have meaning in the intimate relationship with each other and the outside world. Somewhere in the breakdown of what is fantasy and what is reality where the “plate becomes more than a plate”.



“Memory”
(Installation)

I am interested in the relationship between the static object and time. And the resulting displacement of your mind continually “Looping” and thinking about the object. The element of fantasy obviously comes into play. The subtle way in which we balance “real space” and “mind space” is fascinating on one hand through and thought process is so elusive to man, yet on the other hand brain activity can be measured and quantified. The installation, “ Memory” plays with notion of the electric brain activity as physical phenomena and elusive memories of past work. The memory “diagram” is threads between various points in space. The thread gives reason for the point to exist. This is the diagram of a snapshot of thought. Time and memory or over the idea of stopping time has begun as an intellectual process, but has now evolved into an emotional understanding.



“Fate of Polarities”
(Installation)

I have been fascinated with genetics and the idea that we come into this world as with some elements of “FATE” and how much we can change this predisposition. In the world of genetics patterns are repeating, yet each is unique. Even if the basic object is the .same, each has been created at a different time. Even though each has a slightly different position, the similarity and diversity of the basic “ingredients” unify us.This piece is an expression of discovering these similarities and differences within us and between us.