Ascension
Ascension
Charcoal on canvas, photo print on plexiglass. 150 x 167 x 50 cm. 2012.
Recent body of work consisting of a triptych installation focusing on missing silhouettes, pining key moments of one's own way of accepting death, a conceptual and spiritual study of my inner fears connected to life and death.
This all began while visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which made me analyze my own fears and those of the people around me. My visual research, albeit being a cold, analytical process, made me discover and control my own impulses and fears. This is one of the reasons for the plexiglass panels positioned in front of the works, since I would like to engage the public in a similar journey of self-assessment.
The triptych has a philosophical story-line, similar to that of a bildungsroman: acceptance, passover and ascension. All three stances form a whole. The missing silhouettes represent key states of the human being during the whole process.
'Ascension' is the latter part of the installation where the silhouette shows the human body in a lifeless state, pointing up to the possibility of the afterlife, with a philosophical base in Egyptian beliefs.
Charcoal on canvas, photo print on plexiglass. 150 x 167 x 50 cm. 2012.
Recent body of work consisting of a triptych installation focusing on missing silhouettes, pining key moments of one's own way of accepting death, a conceptual and spiritual study of my inner fears connected to life and death.
This all began while visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which made me analyze my own fears and those of the people around me. My visual research, albeit being a cold, analytical process, made me discover and control my own impulses and fears. This is one of the reasons for the plexiglass panels positioned in front of the works, since I would like to engage the public in a similar journey of self-assessment.
The triptych has a philosophical story-line, similar to that of a bildungsroman: acceptance, passover and ascension. All three stances form a whole. The missing silhouettes represent key states of the human being during the whole process.
'Ascension' is the latter part of the installation where the silhouette shows the human body in a lifeless state, pointing up to the possibility of the afterlife, with a philosophical base in Egyptian beliefs.
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