PANDORA`S BOX WAS BLUE
“From a distance everything looks blue”
..is an ingenious eight-year child's statement. But what happens when we pull in by curiosity, a key motif of our need for individuation, to see things up close? Then we discover the other side of the world and we are being faced with the challenge to understand how the world really is, and according to KG Jung it is a gray shape, dark on a light background and light on a dark background.
This inevitable process is heavens well thought-out scenario as a punishment or a challenge to those who received the gift of Prometheus fire, a gift of awareness and knowledge. Their predestination is that the soul such as Pandora opens a box full of content. Pandora was not punished even though she was warned not to do that. Zeus knew she was designed to be curious. What remains closed at the bottom of the box is the hope, the motif that the principles of the world can be understood and how everything holds a meaning lying within.
What is crucial in my work is a psychological and cultural weft. I use imagery and content of contemporary media In order to create a language and syntax which addresses basic principles of our beings. In this sense, drawing on the wall as a form of public expression, which always had a function of presenting some idea concerning the society, aims to highlight the only valued ideology for me, ideology of self-knowledge.
Wall Drawing
Wall drawing, mural, as well as graffiti, stencils and wall messages are most often motivated by the artists need to be socially engaged and to point out some of his or the represented groups attitudes, or they are complicated narratives expressing various social changes, movements, social injustices or collective ideas. Looking through the history of art, maybe Mexican wall painting is the most representative example, as well as recent images on the walls around the world, one global phenomenon of street and public works of art which are becoming more and more precise in style, way and chosen theme. In that respect, I have found my approach of how to express my technical and creative artistic abilities in a public space. The starting point of my work is a “small drawing”, art medium which is most often the most intimate, the most spontaneous and most direct record of artists thoughts, feelings and attitudes. Project is based on the idea to translate my attitudes about myself and the society, manifested through the spontaneous artistic expression of a “small drawing”, into monumental dimensions and thus draw attention to a wider social context of my approach. Project implies performance of the drawing with charcoal on a wall of a gallery. Choice of template, as well as the composition, is dependent on the space I am reacting in.
2011. PANDORA`S BOX WAS BLUE - charcoal drawings on the wall, Gallery of Youth Center of Belgrade, Serbia
Photo by MIRI
