WORK 2009

Mistaken Reality

Suspended

Suspended 2

Throughout the realisation of these pieces, my aim has been to explore my emotional state related to my place within this world, suspended between decisions, mistakes, past, present and future, questioning myself, discovering, feeling, and therefore creating. It has been very interesting and challenging to deal with a very personal subject, organising the development, both theoretically and practically.

During the journey of this project, I have been visually enthused from a vast range of great artists, each of them inspiring me for different reasons. Two such artists are Giuseppe Penone and Jannis Kounellis, who are part of the Arte Povera movement, the work of which, as the name suggests is characterized by the use of inexpensive media, and common materials. Also Robert Raushenberg’s Combines, with their ‘structured messiness’, and Antoni Tapies’ sculptural paintings, with the experimentation of materials have inspired me.

My influences for this project are also related to The Real, a concept discussed from contemporary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, which reminds us of the materiality of our existence, beyond language and thus beyond expressibility, threatening our “Reality”, the fantasy world we convince ourselves is the world around us. A concept which is also correlated to my personal interests and experiences, in exploring and experimenting with materials, highlighting the importance concealed behind them.