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.
2011. PANDORA`S BOX WAS BLUE - charcoal drawings on the wall, Contemporary Art Gallery of Nis, Serbia
Photo by MIRI
