Plein Air Is Unavailable
2021
There is a small room in the Noch space, where I’ve been shown an artist’s video works and short films. A large sheet of gray paper covered the window in this room, keeping the sun out. A few months later, I removed this paper. The paper had acquired a burnt, faded shade from the sun’s direct rays, which filled the main picture plane of the paper, leaving only a few initial fragments at the edges unchangedIn this work, I employ light that can penetrate matter or a structure to create the illusion of instability or the weakness of its resistance. It’s a series of paper works that are labyrinthine, assembled, and woven from ruptures in the structure of objects. Auxiliary elements are used in many of them, such as transparent shells, which give them the appearance of ephemeral structures that play with light and colour. Other sheets of paper, arranged along the floor, create flat layers of paint, texture, and substance. I try to make sure that the sensory qualities of these objects elicit a response from the audience, transferring it from the mode of everyday life to the special mode of attention of the observed, where time slows down, and a new route is laid through a rhythmic pattern of delays, pauses; shifting the focus from objects to many rhythms, temporal distortions; included in the flow of infinite lack of time, filled exclusively with the process of space perception.
2021
There is a small room in the Noch space, where I’ve been shown an artist’s video works and short films. A large sheet of gray paper covered the window in this room, keeping the sun out. A few months later, I removed this paper. The paper had acquired a burnt, faded shade from the sun’s direct rays, which filled the main picture plane of the paper, leaving only a few initial fragments at the edges unchangedIn this work, I employ light that can penetrate matter or a structure to create the illusion of instability or the weakness of its resistance. It’s a series of paper works that are labyrinthine, assembled, and woven from ruptures in the structure of objects. Auxiliary elements are used in many of them, such as transparent shells, which give them the appearance of ephemeral structures that play with light and colour. Other sheets of paper, arranged along the floor, create flat layers of paint, texture, and substance. I try to make sure that the sensory qualities of these objects elicit a response from the audience, transferring it from the mode of everyday life to the special mode of attention of the observed, where time slows down, and a new route is laid through a rhythmic pattern of delays, pauses; shifting the focus from objects to many rhythms, temporal distortions; included in the flow of infinite lack of time, filled exclusively with the process of space perception.
Installation, materials: paper, cardboard, watercolor, pastel
