CONFLICTune installation sur l'origine de la violence
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CONFLICT
There is a conflict in every one of us.
A breakup, a fight, a depression, a disease, the conflict can be simply defined as a clash between two different elements; it is only the scale and intensity of it that varies.
A sudden change, a shocking image, our mind is in a constant conflict with what we see and experience. Sometimes, when we are dealing with an interior crisis, the only way to solve it is by mirroring it in the exterior of oneself. This has been my choice. Through sculpture I can create something which releases a part of my burden and brings me to a certain level of understanding. I collected my experiences, my feelings and my thoughts, processed and melted them together and through my hands, I brought them out into the world.
What I understand now, after this long chase for answers, is that the answer can just as well be the question.
Conflict installation is a projection of my inner struggle, understanding human nature which is shown as a process and not a product. Its structure derives from personal research, many times during travels and human interaction. I experienced my own cultural clash, both from East to West and from East to the further East, but in the essence, as long as I remembered that we all derive from the same matrix, the clash could be transformed in a smoother passage.
The filter through which we perceive ourselves and our reality blurs when confronted with palpable facts, when a certain situation is imposed on us, when we are deprived of that freedom of choice: to accept or not what is given to us. The homonym of our mental filter can be translated in an existing object: the sieve.
From East to West, from East to Far East, my own filter becomes thinner and thinner as the project grows. How do we perceive the essence of things in relation to our physical, geographical position? How do we question what we experience?
Conflict is a 19 piece sculpture installation which represents the projection and deconstruction of a personal perception: a place where the body becomes a symbol and representative of our interior life. Because the body is something we can see, touch, hurt, I use its shape in an attempt to materialize something that has no body: a thought, a feeling, a state of mind.
All life has a body, a surface that protects what is hidden inside.
The body is shown as an experience, as a process of deformation, destruction, decomposition, healing and ultimately, rebirth.
From East to West and back again.
Cluj-Napoca – Brussels - Yerevan. 2013 – 2015.
Ioana S. Tanasescu
