Write my name on a dancing cloud
2022
The title of the project refers to a line from the poem For the Hundredth Time by Uli Kapriz. The work was created as a memorial gesture dedicated to the memory of a close friend of the artist.
Through sculpture, painting, video, and performance, the project reflects on the fragile relationship between presence and absence. It explores the human desire to preserve a trace of someone who is no longer physically present, while acknowledging the impossibility of permanent preservation.
The image of writing a name on a dancing cloud becomes a metaphor for memory itself: a gesture of inscription on a constantly changing surface. The work considers remembrance not as a fixed monument, but as a living process that transforms through time, place, and human experience.
Through sculpture, painting, video, and performance, the project reflects on the fragile relationship between presence and absence. It explores the human desire to preserve a trace of someone who is no longer physically present, while acknowledging the impossibility of permanent preservation.
The image of writing a name on a dancing cloud becomes a metaphor for memory itself: a gesture of inscription on a constantly changing surface. The work considers remembrance not as a fixed monument, but as a living process that transforms through time, place, and human experience.
Farewell
2022
single-channel video, 6:54
single-channel video, 6:54
Video documentation of the performance created for the first part of the project "Write my name on a cloud".
A symbolic rite of farewell through tactile contact with the clay.
The looped nature of the video allows it to be interpreted from different points of view - both as a farewell to someone who is no longer there and as the birth of a new life. In this way the cycle of life and death is closed, forming an endless process of rebirth.
A symbolic rite of farewell through tactile contact with the clay.
The looped nature of the video allows it to be interpreted from different points of view - both as a farewell to someone who is no longer there and as the birth of a new life. In this way the cycle of life and death is closed, forming an endless process of rebirth.
The second part of the project was create in Greece, where nature iwas the co-author.
marble, pencil
sizes vary
sizes vary
Convolvulus flower. сanvas, acrylic
2,2X4,6 m each
2,2X4,6 m each
Transition
2022
single-channel video, 1:03
single-channel video, 1:03
"Almost all initiation rites, regardless of their specifics and location, contain element: the passage through a dark corridor as a symbolic way through death and resurrection to light and life".
Adam Wodnicki, "Provence Triptych."
For the video "Transition," the key image was the image of the tunnel as an expression of the moment in which a person is left alone with his or her fears. In total loneliness he undergoes a test in order to gain inner maturity.
It is a symbolic death, a transition from one world to another.
How the transition will be, and the main thing — to what, depends only on the person and his inner strength.
This rite refers to the myth of Persephone, who was abducted by Hades. Through a narrow passage that opened in the earth, she entered the kingdom of the dead by going through a symbolic death rite. As a result, the impassable boundary between the two worlds was erased.
Adam Wodnicki, "Provence Triptych."
For the video "Transition," the key image was the image of the tunnel as an expression of the moment in which a person is left alone with his or her fears. In total loneliness he undergoes a test in order to gain inner maturity.
It is a symbolic death, a transition from one world to another.
How the transition will be, and the main thing — to what, depends only on the person and his inner strength.
This rite refers to the myth of Persephone, who was abducted by Hades. Through a narrow passage that opened in the earth, she entered the kingdom of the dead by going through a symbolic death rite. As a result, the impassable boundary between the two worlds was erased.
