PRIVATE SPACE IN A SHARED ROOM
Project details
- Year
- 2022
- Programme
- animation
- Practices
- autonomous
- Minor
- Honours /Visual Culture
A PRIVATE SPACE IN A SHARED ROOM IS AN EXPLORATION OF THE CHAOTIC MIND. THE PROJECT INVESTIGATES A PART OF THE PSYCHE THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARTIST AND ESTABLISHES A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND ART.
THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES IN A BROAD AND ABSTRACT SENSE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
WHAT DO WE USUALLY OCCUPY OUR MINDS WITH?
HOW OFTEN DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR HEAD IS TOO OCCUPIED WITH UNNECESSARY THOUGHTS?
HOW OFTEN ARE THESE THOUGHTS REALLY UNNECESSARY?
ARE THEY JUST A COPING MECHANISM?
DO YOU HAVE THE FEELING YOU WORRY TOO MUCH?
WHEN YOU WAKE UP AT NIGHT, DO YOU HAVE A HARD TIME FALLING BACK TO SLEEP BECAUSE YOUR BRAIN IMMEDIATELY STARTS WORKING?
HOW FAST DO THOSE THOUGHTS PASS BY AND YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THEM ALREADY BY THE NEXT ONE? AND THEN, WHEN YOU COME BACK TO THEM, DO THEY ALREADY CONVEY A DIFFERENT FEELING, A DIFFERENT INTENSITY?
OFTEN WE FIND WAYS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES, FOR ME THIS DISTRACTION OFTEN IS OTHER PEOPLE. THIS IS WHY I WANT TO PUT YOU, THE VIEWER, IN AN ISOLATED SPACE. A SPACE IN WHICH YOU ARE NOT FURTHER AWAY THAN A FEW METERS FROM OTHER HUMANS, A SPACE WHICH SEPARATES YOU FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD WITH ONLY WITH A FEW MILLIMETRES OF BLACK TEXTILE. AND DOESN’T THAT ALSO APPLY TO YOUR OWN HEAD? WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES, ARE YOU NOT SHARING THIS SPACE ONLY WITH YOURSELF?
THUS, WHEN YOU ENTER, YOU COULD IMAGINE THIS EXPERIENCE AS IF YOU WERE CLOSING YOUR EYES, ABOUT TO BE WITH YOURSELF. AND YET, THIS IS WHERE THE PARADOX OF THIS INSTALLATION LIES – YOU ARE DISTRACTED AND YET YOU ARE LOOKING INTO A VISUAL REPRESENTATION AND EXPLORATION OF THE SAME CHAOTIC THOUGHTS, MEMORIES, EMOTIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS, THAT WERE DESCRIBED ABOVE.
The installation is produced for film festivals’ immersive experience programs, galleries with an interest in mixed media artworks and all kinds of spaces, in which explorative humans like to roam.
Going back to the audio-visual side of the installation – what you could expect from this is a colourful, crazy chaotic and unexpected collection of analogue and digital works of art, produced/composed by me.
The elements are personal and come from the inside of my mind, but what is interesting is that people tend to connect and break them through their own points of view.
The combination of analogue and digital works is quite a signature for me. I find it beautiful how in this digitalised world, analogue works can still find their place and speak for themselves based, for example only on the choice of paper and the texture it gives.
This look into the mind requires you to sit alone in a dark space. This space gives the perfect opportunity for the audience to experience the audio-visual side of the project. It is not easy to suppress the instinct to go inside a big black box and see what is there.
If you are interested in seeing more projects of mine, I invite you to check my website and my instagram.
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