switch, video loop
installation view
I enjoy exploring human body, its parts and organs; its fullness and gaps, as well as its complexities and rich symbolism. The video loop “Switch” reveals the extreme close-up of the eyeball. Its closeness and manic movements are so present and distressing we can almost smell it. The incessant switch between the fleshy, shiny white part of the eye and the black pupil creates frantic yet poetic feeling. ‘Glowing eyes’ are considered a symbol of jouissance. A small body part is turned into a large landscape of wavy blood vessels, resembling schemes of rivers. The pupil evokes a moonlight and shimmering reflective curtain a starry sky.
The overwhelming live noise of a neon tube fills the room. A cracked open microphone picks up the magnetic field around the tube creating very strong, abrasive resonance. Being interactive with its surrounding, the sound is very unpredictable. During the process of making art, I cherish those erratic moments that disrupt the initial idea, but open up new possibilities. I keep the relations open and mutable: the materials are assembled but not forced into narrow connection. Such freedom also brings with it a dynamics of operation, a fluidity of visions and associations.
Theatrical setting made of sculpture, video projections, text and installations, articulates the notion of darkness as a fantastical territory of wonderment and possibly enlightenment. An uninhibited room collides issues of moral and political responsibility, cultural conflicts, disputability of terror, the brevity of existence, alienation, annihilation, non-belonging, materialist obsessions; a quixotic world where beauty stands next to ugliness, rapture meets disgust and reason illusion.
