Archiving. Album.
This album is part of an artistic research project called Archivation. By means of which I’m trying to deal with only one question.
Is there any point in what’s happening to me?
It was not possible to respond to this question with the help of a standard textual logical conceptual tool.
I have come to the conclusion that the answer to this question simply cannot be repelled and heard. And that visual, wordless art can be a thin, appropriate tool that will allow me to enter the area of unspoken art.
Once the answer slipped away from me as soon as I found it.
To establish the starting point of the study and describe my current state, I have identified a list of important concepts-words for me.
For everyone, I’ve created patterns of signs. Total over 500.
I wanted to select from them those that could be reproduced in any art technique, which would mean their persistence and accuracy. But not all of them wanted to be abstract or concise.
The deeper I dived into the process, with every new sign, the more complex they became.
At this stage of my research, I realized that the image creation process itself gives me more than what I planned for this phase.
In the next step, I tried to replicate the signs found by combining them with the same material and equipment. Trying to find common ground among the signs created for one concept.
The workshop was of a meditative nature. I didn’t come up with anything, I’ve been repeating the shape of the sign with my hands, and I’ve watched it change in new technology. Only hand and eye physics, trying to fit into material.
I’ve been trying to move the signs further into new materials. But the images resisted it. And I realized it wasn’t about specific signs.
It’s how they’re made. It’s not a repetition, it’s getting new every time you listen to what the body tells you by answering an external question by internal traffic and following it, like improvising in a dance.
The improvisation is a mistake. Mistakes help you find angles, space possible.
The life of a man, my life including, it’s also improvisation. You can’t predict it, you can’t predict it. You can only expect it.
There are new ways in improvisation that may then become rules. But you can’t just live with old skills. They’re just a base for new ones.
Living a life according to plan is impossible to find freedom. And I really want to be free.
The album was shown at the exhibition "Light Things"
