OnFocus and the Space in Time

On Focus and the Space in Time.

These are the points of interest of my recent research that is named “ Sharing the Silence” It shows a body of photography and video work that was made in the past couple of months as a consequence of rethinking my work processes and a new way of thinking about my methodology.

Part of the feedback I got from my teacher in the past assessments was to start owning my work, and in order to figure that process from the ground up, I have had to put myself under some serious digging, both into the forgotten antique ruins and the socialist modernisms of my arrayed selves. As I understand, a seemingly very important brick of material was missing from my side in terms of being openly communicative in elaborating on what is all that is behind my process, what is forming my visual language, what is making me question the world around me and what am I really questioning?

All these questions shook me up because I saw it as though my symbolic language and coded visual narratives were not welcomed in the academic setting that I decided to revisit and re-inhabit by attending the Institute, and these emotions provoked a whole another set of very introspective questions and experiments I needed to impose on myself in order to see more clearly how to accept the layering I will be going through in a process that had just begun.

The main investigation and research is primarily an intimate breaking through the thick walls of my multiple realities, and laying some foundation that is not carved in stone, but is rather flexible. Flexibility is being strong on a level of bending in many directions without falling, it is a balancing that is supported by being focused and light – strong.

And these qualities are the ones I am aspiring to attain and pursue, because they can let me stay free, intuitive and spontaneous in my practice.

I would like to remain in the position of freedom when choosing a medium to interpret my preoccupations, and enjoy the interdisciplinary mishmash that possibly also can turn out as a miss match but it is on the moving path.

Before I am ready to deal with critiquing the world around me I must undergo a process of investigating my own architecture and re-establish the vocabulary I am willing to share. All my recent work – is in line with those processes, and what I am trying to define or re-establish is this intimate space of my own. It is trying to be a simple space, and it exists in these particulars niches of time that are parallel to this reality or any other reality I impose on myself.

The work that I’m presenting in this trimester is inspired and relates to my research of the “space between” the realities or realms I all am a part of. It is continuing to pursue the metaphor of silence that I like to use in my work, and code my narratives behind it. Silence as method of self-reflection but also as a sign of not knowing how to react to some things that are a part of my other realities. How to react to these mutual realities where Trump is the president of the USA, how to deal with the consequences of the war in Yugoslavia and to ever spreading toxicity of the ideologies that are used to misinterpret the past, steal the present and fertilize the future with aggression? How to deal with the fact that we as a human race have failed on so many levels, what can I do to save the Orangutans now that we have pushed them and many other species to the very edge of the extinction? How to react on the amount of plastics in the Oceans? How to react to the silence of the World forces on the atrocities of present wars and migrations happening parallel with our safe guarded commodities? How to stay normal while feeling the abnormality of some of these realities? I am using silence not as an action of non-doing but of temporary action in silence, that can be shared with those who (want to) understand it. A silence that is describing my surroundings, the silence that is measuring my distance from the magical powers of that particular blue color of the Sea, a silence that is a language the corner of my closet speaks as it being used as a personification of unfolding of my various states.

My recent research is also inspired, if not connected to my readings about the Transpersonal Theory and the unfinished work about the Plateau experience by Abraham Maslow, to my discovery of the thought of H. Lefebvre and his critique of everyday life, and supported by the magic of the borgesian realism, in exploring the elements such as reflection, the nature of time, infinity and identity.