Monday, January 25, 2010

this is what i was thinking for this 'room' project, it's not final, cos still need to do more search and blabla, but it pretty much puts me on the right track...sorry it's a bit too long for reading.

At first when I heard about this project I thought of use and misuse of studio, 2nd floor and everything included there. Everything in the space has its own purpose; therefore everything could be misused and perceived in a different way. The conception of use and misuse automatically had a link to use and misuse of the sources from what all the objects in the space are made. So, the first idea was to relate misuse of an object to the waste of sources in order to create commodity and not always necessity of an object placed in a particular space. I thought of making a fictitious door frame to nowhere as it would be an obvious and strong symbol of misuse and demolish it at the end. This work supposed to be based not only on site-specific sculpture, but also have a reference to irresponsible use of some sources which could be used in a more reasonable way. However, doing deeper research in objects which could be used in my work I have decided to leave this concept behind this work for later. I became more interested in consciousness which is created by an object placed in a place where it does not belong. When the object is placed somewhere else where it does not belong is it still the same object? Physically I would misuse it, but psychically it would be still the same object only because of the perception we have about it.
I saw a window as a perfect object. In general, I see window as a medium between outside and inside, which is necessary for providing a room with light. If someone builds a building without windows ( by saying windows I am referring to everything what could be perceived as a window, even a hole in a wall) is it still a building or is it just a dark cube which, in my opinion, relates to fear, unconsciousness and lost. So, referring to this windows purpose is to provide a building with life, save the inhabitants from the elements as well as it has a link to consciousness, freedom and light in general. In this case what makes a window to be a window – is it the place where it is placed or is it the whole window’s perception in both physical and psychical terms. Therefore, I’ve chosen a particular place in studio- a wall connecting studio and a cage on the 2nd floor where is a window in front of it.
This chosen place has leaded me to another ‘discovery’ I have made. If I placed a mirror instead of a glass in the window sash then people could see an actual window in my fictitious window. In my opinion, it doubles the confusion. The window is not real, but there is a reflection of the real window. Does it make the fictitious window real? For me, this reflection creates a strange connection between reality and imagination. It connects both windows, so in this case it compounds real and not real things together. So, my window is the reflection of a window in two ways: the first one is the reflection of windows perception in general and the second one is a visual reflection of the window in front of mine. I’m interested in playing with this relationship between what is real and what is not and how far would you go in order to break the wall in between these two different dimensions.

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