Installation

 

This project is an installation that explores escapism, dystopia and ethereal reality. The works lie between a line of the familiar and the exotic - the mysterious and the dreamy, which explores between the deceased person’s belongings and a steel structure, a legacy of my grandma. Where the cage is protected around looming glass windows. the idea of the red threads, are moving and showing momentum in the opposite direction of breaking out of a cage, mimicing our hearts following the flow inwards. Like many young people, I often longed to escape. Whether you are leaving home or a familiar country, this feeling always stays. It is an extremely strong emotion, where staying at a fixed location in the long term brings an unknown uncomfort. In the process of making, and searching for meaning, I tried to create this steel cage, but in the end it presented the kind of reality that I was more eager to escape from. Escape brings great freedom. In the act and time frame of escaping, we can temporarily stay away from the established rules, instead, I covered the typewriter with plastic film to create the suffocating feeling brought by freedom. But for a short time, it seemed that everything is no longer important, and life depends on your own choices - where the thought of life often makes death recede. In the absence of death, we begin to look for life. This is what everyone is constantly pursuing, and will continue to pursue, a never ending cycle.

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In the process and development of this work, I wanted to undertand and seek my own struggles, to manidest them. Re-undersranding the relationship with myself and family resluted in the use of images to construct the exploration of my grandmother - condolences and farwells. Considering that specifically this typewriter was the tool that my grandmother often used in her daily life, I wanted to explore the potential and possibility of human emotions in the space of irreversible trauma and forces. forces such as history and fate of individuals and groups of humans - How tiny individuals find their own ways of coping and processing trauma.