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About
The main theme of my research is focused on questions — who am I, who is a person in this world, in society, the relationship of man with nature, as part of nature, the influence of nature on man and man on nature in different areas of his life. Nature, for me, in this case, is a very voluminous concept that goes beyond just one environment.
I very often ask myself the question — why are we like this? Why can we, in such a "strange" (initially almost defenseless and vulnerable) human form, create and destroy in the name of one and the same idea?! As part of my research, I am also interested in topics of corporality, identity, duality and balance, vitality, and transience of life in this fragile and unstable world. I am interested in the relationship of man with nature — how nature affects human creativity, rethinking, transforming, and interpreting natural forms and phenomena in human creative and scientific activities, transforming nature into art and science.
Biography
In my artistic practice, I bring to life "eternal" questions, which are contextualized in current cultural circumstances and through the framework of my personal experience. I am interested in the form, figure and act of self-identification, self-consciousness of both the entire human species and the individual thinking being.
Identity is a fundamentally questionable entity, which from a correlationist, Cartesian perspective looks like an unsolvable puzzle. Therefore, as an artist, I turn to the logic of the phenomenologist and seek to discover the features of human identity in the reflection of the optics through which we look at the world of things and phenomena. The anthropomorphisation of non-human forms of life, the narrativization of what we see, is always an experience of distortion, a sign of blind anthropocentrism. But by deconstructing this experience, we can find an answer to the question of who we are through our intentions, projections, memories and delusions.
It is optics that is particularly important to me as an artist. I create my works at the level of the gaze, of perception — tangible and intangible all at once, always somewhere in between, in the midway, both corporeal and imaginary, real and illusionary, abstract and figurative.
Here is the basic logic that underlies my artistic practice: nature influences the human being, their creative power and their capacity for self-consciousness. Humans in turn, being under such influence, observe and interpret nature. So the transformations and interpretations of natural forms in human creative and scientific practices are both the source and the consequence of that interaction that is embedded in our genome and that sprouts in our culture. It changes forms and contents, but remains faithful to this dual and balanced pattern of perception and influence. This structure is confusing and bewildering. But at the same time, it gives us the opportunity to examine individual facets and traits of fluid, performative identities through juxtaposition, co-configuration, correlation. I work with visual semiotics and use it as a navigation system — a complex, multilevel construction of the visible and assembled universe, as if reconstructed by humans from elements of tradition, ancestral memory, symbols, avatars and fragments of large and small narratives, from recollection and "peeking" into the future. I find an opportunity to disperse, to deconstruct visual culture as a metaphorical body that influences and at the same time is influenced by both human beings and nature in this mosaic construction of the perception summary expressed in symbols, signs, codes.