INBETWEEN
MEDIUM / Installations
DATE / 2022
DIMENSIONS /2.45m x 2.60m x 2.40m
MATERIALS / resin, metal, MDF wood, nylon & performance
THE DOUBLE
The living body in the frozen room, next to its rigid effigy.
SEVEN HEADS
DIMENSIONS / 5.50 x 1.00 x 2.40 m
MATERIALS / metal, silicone, polyurethane foam, —acrylic paint, nylon
The cold of loneliness is filled with the repetition of the self, the creation of copies.
MIRROR ROOM
DIMENSIONS / 2.50 x 1.85 x 2.40 m
MATERIALS / mdf, mirrors
A room with multiple fragmentary reflections of the self.
The transition from life to death is an incomprehensible moment, a distance that the human mind is unable to grasp. The distance between existence and non-existence, this indefinable "inbetween", usually brief and unexpected, is a distance that man travels alone.
The space "inbetween" refers to the inevitable loneliness of life and death. Birth and death are experiences that are by definition experienced alone. But the utter loneliness of life is revealed when the real gap between people becomes apparent. This distance comes from perceiving things solely through one's subjective filter. It is never possible to grasp the opposite’s view completely, but only an image passed through one's eyes. In a way, one can only percieve a fragmentary image or a repetition of the self. We are alone because we are each trapped in their own being.
The triptych of installations was based on the uncanny situations documented by S.Freud (Das Unheimliche, 1919) and refer to: inanimate objects that are mistaken as animate (dolls, waxwork, automata, amputated limbs, etc.), alive beings that behave as inanimate objects (ecstasy, seizures, etc.), the double (twins, doppelgangers, etc.), the coincidences or repetitions and the confusion between reality and fantasy.
[…] but with every step he took, with every thud of his foot on the granite of the pavement, there leapt up as though out of the earth a Mr. Golyadkin precisely the same, perfectly alike, and of a revolting depravity of heart. And all these precisely similar Golyadkins set to running after one another as soon as they appeared, and stretched in a long chain like a file of geese, hobbling after the real Mr. Golyadkin, so there was nowhere to escape from these duplicates, […]
F. Dostoyevsky. (1846). The Double