About
This collection of artworks commences a dialogue with the idealism of new technologies. It tries to explore the space and the friction between the digital and the analogue, the collective and the individual, the named and the anonymous.
The ink on paper drawing technique stands in contradiction with the advanced graphic technologies. Keeping in mind that the internet is the actual modern global platform for art presentation and distribution, the technique is crucially different to current trends and their trappings.
The images consist of dots – pixels – that unfold into forms which are abstract, fantastical and ornamental. Scenes of different nature and meaning exist in proximity to each other, a contemplation of nature or the closeness of two people are surrounded within one image by a multitude of stimuli, screens, machines, labyrinths, cities, mysterious shapes and creatures.
The dots often connect and form thin lines that create enclosed spaces within the images, a metaphor of the interconnectivity of the real and virtual worlds. Those spaces and images are meticulous and multilayered, flowing into one another, just like the virtual experience and technology interconnects seamlessly with our reality (“004”).
A human head is built of screens showing animals and plants, machines and tools (“001”). Our senses and intuition become inseparably connected to the stimuli of the virtual world. The number of the digital images we are surrounded with grows every day and even now is bigger than anything we can easily imagine. In (“002”) those images are a part of a different reality, one that has been created and grown outside of our imagination and consciousness. In (“004”) we’re still connected, but we realize that the immense number of stimuli that descend on us from within the virtual global network is impossible for us to be tamed, organized or understood.
Intelligent connected devices such as smartphones have quickly changed the way we interact with others. We moved a major part of our social interaction with others to the web and we are connecting with people virtually, through those devices. So many of us get sucked into the experience, sacrificing a lot in the process, the activity of using the web, of accessing the global network becomes actually being in it and living it (“003”).
The way the world has evolved and the amount of our everyday activities that have been changed irrevocably by the advancement of the internet and new technologies make it simply impossible for most of us to disconnect from the virtual experience completely. What we can do is to find a balance, to use the virtual responsibly, sensibly and wisely, to stay logged in without being trapped (“005”).
