ARTIST STATEMENT

In my work I describe my perception of the world through the prism of collective subconsciousness.

Rooting in my early interest in psychoanalysis, psychology, and mystified ideas of the “space in between”,

I see art as a way to engage with each other through invisible matters - ideas and stories, building bridges inside the infinite pool of collective subconsciousness. The visual narrative of my work merges the symbolism and techniques of the old and the new, driving my interest in the cycle-shaped nature of progress.

Mythology as a metaphorically narrated knowledge, as well as creation of altars, amulets and other forms of symbolic, spiritual expression are often described as a way of perceiving the world applicable only to the past. In my work, I attempt to challenge the separation between the progress and the «irrational» world of mystical and mythological.

I’m trying to highlight the urgent need of our rational world in trust for mystified metastractural knowledge.

I believe that our denial of mythology as an important construct of the human sublimation of life is one of the crucial reasons we as humans drift away from the nature and our roots. Using imagination as a tool and trusting mythology as an alternative knowledge system, we can rediscover ourselves, our history and the cultural, spiritual and social context we live in.

In my figurative work I blur the line between the human, animal-like figures and abstract landscape - as a form of re-imagination of our united organic origin. Looking into the relevant direction, I integrate natural objects and shapes (formations of organic crystals, fragments of dead sea life and other preservations of organic life) in order to draw a line of comparison, simulate the balance of organic organization in order to explore the human capacity of creation and beauty in companionship with nature, as highly developed species – and how this unity highlights not only the spiritual progression, but serve as a reminder, that our main goal as a humankind is not to overcome the skillfulness and nurturing capacity of nature, but learn how to align with it, direct our ways of progression, so that we preserve the beauty and knowledge of the world we live in.

We need to discontinue the natural distortion we bring, and learn the balance of living things as a humankind, equal to any other organic form of life.