The inspiration for the new works comes from two
directions. The basic motivation for the creation of these works consisted of
the protest against the Government in 2011. in which I've participated. At that
point, I was aware that some kind of change within the system is necessary and
I felt obliged to actively participate. However, very quickly I became aware of
the absence of any changes and the achievement of social progress. I also
became aware of the absurdity of the current method of media coverage of these
and similar events. Critical mass is never actually created, and protests in
the eyes of the media quickly become yesterday's news. After the protest I
continued to monitor other events, and concluded that in our country these
protests achieved little, while in the world, the result was often even the
loss of certain social rights and social norms. What touched me most was the
complete marginalization of individuals and groups who want to achieve change
(workers Dioki, RIZ, and LGBT populations).
Another source of motivation for the new cycle
comes from the contents of a literary work Beauty
*, namely essays Whatever Happened to
Beauty? from the author Kathleen
Marie Higgins *. Within the aforementioned literary work the author questions
what happened to the beauty of using the works of A.C. Danto as her starting
point. Analyzing his writings, the author concludes that art’s function as a
moral arm is still limited. Analogously, I dare say that activist art has its
limitations in the context of real activation of the audience, as the viewers often
lose interest quickly and continue on their way.
Motivated by the problem described above, I
started working on a series of images that have been divided into two parts.
The first part of the cycle refers to images that represent my inner world that
through my visual code speaks of his own isolation. The second part of the
works consists of photographies that show fragments of disappearing people from
various protests. In the collective awareness they are, in fact, already begun
to fade and disappear by being squeezed by great amounts of news and
information served in everyday media.
I wanted this work to study the relationship
between the two worlds. The first relates to my own inner world, which is
fenced off and in which I’m trying to overcome the feeling of loss permeated
through our whole society. For the viewer the first part of the cycle itself
does not represent anything except maybe a nice experience. The second part of
the cycle relates to the real world. Where almost any social struggle becomes
futile and soon forgotten. The world in which the media every day launched a
new theme, in which an individual can hardly be expected to understand the
system that neglects and forgets his on daily basis. I leave opened the
question whether the loss can be prevailed inside by building our inner utopia,
or does it leave us to fight, even if it’s often in vain?
* Beauty / / Edited by Dave Beech, Documents of Contemporary Art, Gallery Whitechaple
* Kathleen Marie Higgins, Whatever Happened to Beauty?, A Response to Danto, 1996.
* Beauty / / Edited by Dave Beech, Documents of Contemporary Art, Gallery Whitechaple
* Kathleen Marie Higgins, Whatever Happened to Beauty?, A Response to Danto, 1996.
