OnFocus and the Space in Time

On Focus and the Space in Time.

These are the points of interest of my recent research. 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.

So 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 am a part of.

It is 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 Lefebre 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.