"urban savage" Photograph

My work until now contains research in the field of painting, drawing, video, space installations and performance. During the last two years I was trying to build an unique three-dimensional spaces- so called playground/movie/urban scenograpy, with the intention of place the viewer into new situations, altering his position, from the viewer into the position of the participant. The new space that opens inside such an installation is aspiring to be a space of special social realm that questions the position of an individual, freedom, art and possibilities of expression in the time of post-capitalistic/consumption driven era.
The materials used in my work, usually derelict, waste materials, sometimes taken from different framework, are being transformed during the
creation process, thus gaining new correlations and being placed into a completely new sphere. The process of work is important for me; moreover its an adventure, during which unexpected things can happen.

Some of most recent performance-sound-installations were done outside the galleries, using abandoned shops and streets as an open platform for different intervention ( Fingerstick Radio). This kind of artistic work allowed us to establish a close contact with the public by temporally inserting them into the unfamiliar, though real situations, barraging them with pure and sick entertainment; sometimes upsetting, provoking them, all in order to shatter the apparent calmness of everyday life, giving an unanticipated sample of living differently and present that difference in a form of a real, hands-on experience.
In my opinion the collaboration is of a particular importance for projects themselves, for they are subjected to constant scrutiny, revisions and debate, consequentially denouncing the image of an exposed, lonely artist/genius and drawing the attention to the importance of the community and multiple-voice work.

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world- and, at the same time, that
threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
(Marshall Berman, All that is solit Melts into Air, New York 1981