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PORTFOLIO

Orgin
silver gelatin print 2007

Image is Text and Words

                              

Intertexts to painting, art history and theoretical thinking are in many respects more important in working than technique and pleasing in appearance. The works are pure thought, the texts attached to the works are the foundation for working.

    

My relationship with visual arts is research-like, like a writer or a philosopher researches their subject. The works are multi-layered, at a superficial glance the work may seem simple, recycling, choice of material and topics create an interpretation that reproduces a worldview of constant change where only ideas are permanent. Ideas appear as intertextuality of fine art. When reading the works, one distinguishes differences and similarities between images and theories, history becomes the present day.

 

Recycling materials from work to work and using recycled materials in work is a moral and ethical stance. I also follow this idea when analyzing other people's works, I value the "goodness" of the works. The border between subjectivity and objectivity blurs in art, in general. Viewer thinks he's personal life and secondly how art piece reflects society, and surroundings where we are living in. value self-criticism, the time and thought invested in the work. The works are profoundly ideological, socially critical, discursive.

 

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