the artist
Transitory States
In my work I am interested in how it feels and what it means to be human. As adults we rely on prior experiences and ideas that we have accumulated throughout life. This approach is useful and comfortable, but it may limit or even entirely distort one’s perception of reality.
As a child I remember household items morphing in the darkness of night into fantastic shapes, but as I grew older I was taught not to trust my perception. “Transitory States” is inspired by the confusion and doubt that precedes exploration. It is an attempt to go back to such a state of “not knowing”.
Exploring my surroundings I am also preoccupied with a sense of general movement. Everything is matter built with tirelessly moving particles.
That raises more questions - how to measure anything if the object and the subject of the studies are submitted to constant change? How much we know about reality as everything we know about it is perceived through our senses and analyzed by the brain. That operation creates a short but undeniable existing gap. This means we experience the past, never the present.
In my work I try to metaphorically freeze and preserve time, embalming used clothing with acrylic liquid and then bronzing the surface. I choose clothes as building material because of the intimacy that they represent.
“Transitory States” is my exploration of the question: Can subjective experience, tinted as it is with feelings of confusion and disbelief, be a superior tool in making sense of our human condition more accurately than scientific methods and tools? Does one objective reality exist?
