In the present, in the overflow of information and stimulus, wanting to keep our well-being and integrity, we search for asylums to withdraw. Thus we all create shelters somewhere between the place and the space.
They can take various forms – with or without physical materiality/appearance of often beautiful, seductive or fragile defensiveness.
Shelter – the sculpture reminds of our relations with others and with the space around us. It meets our eternal need for safety accompanied by a perpetual desire for new experiences; the need to separate, isolate yet with constant capability to relate to and control the external world.
The appearance of Shelter changes with the change of perspective. It invites to experience and to contemplate ever changing relations between a human, light, shadow, transparencies, reflections and points of view on their physical and symbolic level.
The sculpture emerges as inspiring, intimidating, inviting, scary and seductive at the same time.
People entering The Shelter will have to face first strong impressions and emotions before they deeply immerse in the experience of soft, soothing, womb-like nest, hidden and protected by the shield of pointy, icicles-like façade.
I created Shelter to provide, provoke and generate an experience that could stimulate and invite to gaining awareness of the asylums we build ourselves.
Meaning of the materials used:
Glass, despite its fragility, has always been used as a safe container to hold valuable substances. It is still the only chemically neutral material that protects whilst at the same time, allows seeing the substances kept within it.
On the conceptual level, we all have been conditioned to handle glass with extra care as glass, despite its practicality and visual attraction, holds the potential of danger – yet this potential of threat comes from its vulnerability: glass capability of hurting in return of “being hurt”; i.e. getting cut by broken glass. Only glass that has been broken can cut you.
Do you handle yourself with care between place and space?
Work has been created thanks to the generous support of:
BEWE
and
NZOZ POLIMED
SIZE: 215 x D: 140cm
MATERIALS: blown glass, stainless steel, light, sound, 2008
In the present, in the overflow of information and stimulus, wanting to keep our well-being and integrity, we search for asylums to withdraw. Thus we all create shelters somewhere between the place and the space.
They can take various forms – with or without physical materiality/appearance of often beautiful, seductive or fragile defensiveness.
Shelter – the sculpture reminds of our relations with others and with the space around us. It meets our eternal need for safety accompanied by a perpetual desire for new experiences; the need to separate, isolate yet with constant capability to relate to and control the external world.
The appearance of Shelter changes with the change of perspective. It invites to experience and to contemplate ever changing relations between a human, light, shadow, transparencies, reflections and points of view on their physical and symbolic level.
The sculpture emerges as inspiring, intimidating, inviting, scary and seductive at the same time.
People entering The Shelter will have to face first strong impressions and emotions before they deeply immerse in the experience of soft, soothing, womb-like nest, hidden and protected by the shield of pointy, icicles-like façade.
I created Shelter to provide, provoke and generate an experience that could stimulate and invite to gaining awareness of the asylums we build ourselves.
Meaning of the materials used:
Glass, despite its fragility, has always been used as a safe container to hold valuable substances. It is still the only chemically neutral material that protects whilst at the same time, allows seeing the substances kept within it.
On the conceptual level, we all have been conditioned to handle glass with extra care as glass, despite its practicality and visual attraction, holds the potential of danger – yet this potential of threat comes from its vulnerability: glass capability of hurting in return of “being hurt”; i.e. getting cut by broken glass. Only glass that has been broken can cut you.
Do you handle yourself with care between place and space?
Work has been created thanks to the generous support of:
BEWE
and
NZOZ POLIMED
SIZE: 215 x D: 140cm
MATERIALS: blown glass, stainless steel, light, sound, 2008