lipstick on mirror, 2014, 40 x 60 cm
This work is not about love. This work is about a notion, a filter that appears and masks reality. The filter is a set of add-ons projected on the current situation, the images saved from past experiences, and impressions of how someone looked, spoke, or moved. Confrontation with the facts is ignored, it may yet mean a loss of a sense of joy or may give rise to disappointment. The filter gradually grows, covering more and more of what is. The boundary between dream and reality is blurred.
stretch wrap, mirror, 2014, approx. 25 x 25 x 25 cm
seeds, dish, water, 2014, 20 x 20 x 2 cm
A small element, barely noticeable, seemingly irrelevant, may change the course of events. Nuances such as keys left in a different place than usual, the color of someone's shirt, the way someone pronounces a certain word or someone's slip of the tongue. Such factors cause everything that happens later to be different.
battery, bulb in a socket, battery snap, zap-straps, 2014, approx. 5 x 4 x 5 cm
We make different decisions every day: we judge, choose, we are driven by solutions that were remembered in the past and which were then marked as good or bad. The conviction of the righteousness of a particular solution may have its roots in religion, politics or may be dictated by authority of a group or organization with which one identifies. Similar notions of appropriate or inappropriate solutions are carefully stored and protected at a later time. The mind can continue for hours, days, or even years going over internal schemes. It remains entangled in a loop of a sensation that some solution which was right in the past would be fine in this very moment.
air conditioner: indoor and outdoor units, 2014
We are flooded with advertisements, news, information which very often use extremes - these seem to be the most interesting. By absorbing and interacting with them we become accustomed to using similar extremes in our daily lives. We consume a lot of energy to sustain once achieved outermost states while trying to reach for more.