The Areas Of Oblivion

I tend to embody a notion of presence in my work, when a weight and gravity of presented objects would take over the space and a viewer. I try to produce sort of echo, almost physical sensation of a space that wakes us up to our own presence.

This is a second time when I revolve around a subject of The Areas of Oblivion. This time I concentrate on a contrast between what is known and unknown, a positive and negative side of things. One that is known is a reminder of an idea of sacrum, which according to Mircea Eliade originates from the act of dividing the space which is known and therefore safe and true. The stability and continuance of sacrum provides a shelter from the chaos of ordinary existence, gives a point of reference, a foundation for purposeful living. Thus the Areas Of Oblivion is an interpretation of a chaos and it’s indefinite and sometimes scary quality.

Those areas – sacrum and chaos – are complementary and determine the existence of opposite. Carle Andre coined an aphorism which describes curious and paradoxical relationship between complementary: “a thing (that) is a hole in a thing it is not”.