These artworks present the mix of different materials founded in my environment. Actually all of these materials are some kind of waste, which I am collaging in various composition.  Basic panel for all collage is plexiglass, which is excess or rest  in a big factory for the production of plastic boards. Mostly, works are combined by plastic pipes, part of some constructional materials, like a plastic net for armature, waste of dry acrylic color, glue and other painting materials which include plastic, as well as  plastic bags, ribbons,etc.. Composition of works are spontaneously made. Colors of parts are combined  relative to emphasis intensity of the colors. In some occasion, Segments are mixed with similar colors but different materials, and in  the other solution, this is combination of the contrasting color and materials. Colors are high intensity or fluorescent,  some parts are transparent, that describe flexibility and basic characteristic of plastic. Concept of this project is pointing on conglomeration of toxic materials, promotional materials, information, colors,  in our every day life.

Visual Pollution

Red is quite a controversial color and yet intense. It represents passion, love, lust and at the same time fatality, vices and moral corruption. Initially, I wanted to capture lust for life, but in the end it evolved into representation of both sides of human soul - its endless fight between temptations and desires. While working on “Alizarin” I was accompanied by “Portrait of Dorian Gray”, hence no wonder where my inspiration came from. 

Alizarin 

Behind the cold and calm mind there is a hidden mix of emotions. Demons do not hide just behind bright emotions that they can be as waters: silent waters are deep. 

Blue Agony

death?

small

a girl

open mind

song 2

song 1

maturation 

stuck

hidden

These 5 images are part of one series ‘Moving windows’. They are digital collages, made from original photograms and original photographs. 

The images I create are not about the realism of a place, a face or a memory. But to the contrary allow me to invent, imagine and share not a precise account of somewhere, something or someone but change the view of an existing place, modifying a part of it with my memory and experience of another. 

I see photography as so much more, then a realistic account. Because I create these images freed from what I see as constrains of ‘classical photography’.
Every single image, moment, I capture is a canvas, waiting to be modified, to evolve into something else. I use photography as a way to create, and look at spaces. Bring spatial experiences onto surfaces, and give physicality to images. It is about the materiality of the paper, the depth of a space. 

This specific series, is about just that. In September 2020, I started noticing round windows, like the one my childhood bedroom everywhere.  I looked at them with nostalgia and homesickness. It made me think about this house, the role it played in my love for space. I started photographing all of them.

By creating these collages with photograms ( old analog printing technic where instead of exposing a negative you expose an object/volume) of models in movement and the photographs of windows. I am mixing the old and the new, adding my memory to an existing space, creating something compelling else. Making it into abstract images of a spaces and not a photographs of  places. These images are both very real and completely imagined. But those spaces are not recreated they are created and exist for me and the viewer in those images for a moment. 

'Moving windows'

“It’s possible to keep temptation in check” is a series of collages fully based on scans contemplating isolation from physical point of view, which means getting a no-go to fulfil the need of touch and being touched by another human being. The closest a lot of people can get to it is by touching the image of another person on the screen of phone or laptop. The screen is a wall we are hitting our heads against (quite often being surrounded by sounds our coupled neighbours). None of those experiences feel real and a lot of disruptions appear. 

It’s possible to keep temptation in check

Air and light reflected through jewellery. Material here works as its own absence and plays the role of light transmittor.

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