VIEW IN MY ROOM
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear (Doha) Painting
Russia
Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 49.2 W x 86.6 H x 0.8 D in
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Typical multi-storey residential buildings, once designed to create affordable personal housing for every family, nowadays represent the invasion of the capital in our everyday life. Life in the rhythm of a big city leaves no room for privacy, personal space and relationship of a human with his own self. Metropolis being an architectural concept once now becomes a geographical one, "eating” time and depriving people of privacy. A huge public space densely built-up with block of flats and the endless movement of a kaleidoscope of events leave only blurry images of visible objects. Parts of mirrors built into the composition, implant in the landscape of broken metropolis rhythms a reflection in which a viewer can see himself. Mirror-strips that seem very tiny in the proportions of the city catch the reflection of a passing person only for a second and during this time it is impossible to see your reflection in them and think about your emotions, fears and hopes. Typical residents of megacities are not used to being alone, moreover, many of them are afraid of it. In modern society, we are constantly in the stream of information and communication: social networks, news and chats don’t let us to put aside smart phones only for a minute and listen to ourselves. We define our identity through culture, gender, race, profession and political position forgetting about individual time, time “only for ourselves”. The big city often changes and distorts our self-image because we can’t imagine existence outside its lifestyle, filled with movement and permanent communication. Our consciousness is urbanized, and the fragments of this urbanization look like pieces of a puzzle that will never come together in our consciousness. The mirror is an ancient symbol of polyvalence and contradictions; it fixes the diversity of the world, becoming a projection of knowledge and consciousness of the beholder. In different epochs, the mirror was perceived as a door between our world and the other world, as a symbol of the moon and the feminine, as an object of prophecy, a lot of rituals and superstitions were associated with the mirror. Mirror fragments used in the series " Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” aim to reflect our true essence, urging us to stop and see it.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:49.2 W x 86.6 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:Russia.
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I have been engaged in photography for many years and I have been drawing since an unconscious age, so the color has become an emotional language of awareness of the real and intangible worlds for me, and photography has allowed me to create stories, in which I put subjective meaning into the object world. I usually use acrylic while painting on boards of different sizes. I use video if I want to give a static picture the energy of drama. I often use mirrors in my works because of their polyvalence and ambiguity. The combination of these media allows me to reflect as accurately as possible on the problems of the modern world. A new theme often encourages me to master new styles and techniques, invent a suitable tool for accurate visualization of the conceived. Using of author's complex mirrors (I cut them by myself, compose and make photos through their reflections) makes it possible to interact with the viewer asking him "Who are you here and now?". The fragmentation is the visual key that unites my works. The role of the fragment more often than not plays a mirror, or rather a reflection. The main subject of my research is stereotyped and conventional thinking. Each my project is a proposal to the viewer to get out of the" zero point of perception" - to replace his own perception and initiative with uncontrolled choice between the existing set of perception and behavior stereotypes. While analyzing each new subject, I examine myself for the presence of stereotyped thinking, and I try to struggle against it. By using combining of different techniques in my works, I construct a mechanism that helps the viewer to reflect on his fears, injuries, experience, mistakes and secret desires.
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