> memory as a new reality >
My interest is focused on perception; the way we look at the
world around us and what we see of it. To what degree we can
see what we are looking at. To what degree we only see what
we have learned to see and how we learned to see it. If I was to
describe the house I am passing on my way to work every day,
would I do it on the basis of having seen it numberless times or
on the basis of a rough notion of what a house looks like? The ability to distinguish cultural activation patterns enables
us to get oriented in the world, to attribute various qualities to it, to
understand it. However, it distances us relentlessly from the world
at the same time. The understanding achieved through a system
of patterns and schemes causes losing direct contact with the world. In
my diploma thesis, I relate to a memory as to an event. I focus on
how can experience influence physical form of the objects. Their shape in our memory is
modified by the way how we have experienced them. This creates a parallel new reality. A series of objects, performances
and videos has been created. By means of reconstruction, childhood
memories became a specific case of perception. |