Aberdeen

Degree Show

Mind (noun): the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.

Body (noun): the physical structure of a person or an animal, including the bones, flesh, and organs.

Space (noun): a continuous area or expanse that is free, available, or unoccupied.

Mind – body – space.

Three important components of contemporary understanding of world.

The connection and reconnection is compulsory.

Finding and loosing balance is more important than staying in one position and pretend that everything is fine.

I lay on a branch and contemplated on existence.

Interaction and understanding of a space. A space that remained unaltered, what had changed is the mind.

One cannot understand everything but will always try.

Losing fears through getting closer to nature. Acknowledging the origin of fear, understanding its remodeling into a phobia.

Looking into space of someone else, seeing yourself in reflection of someone else; through understanding others, understand yourself. Through understanding yourself, understand everything around you.

Some fall in their dreams, others call it flying.

Who are we? What a human kind is? How will we survive if we destroy everything around us?

I found the answer in the mind. I found the answer in the body. I found the answer in the space.

There is a woman planting trees in a desert. There is a man living without money. There is a woman making no waste. There is a man being a pirate to fight for the sea. There is a woman establishing water as a human right. There is a man taking care of the last white rhinoceros on Earth. There is a hope.

The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth.

Everything is living and everything is linked.

I flew while lying on the branch.

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For my Degree Show in June 2015 I created a space. An interactive space filled with objects and projections.

As you enter the space, on your left side are three white fabric tubes, on the right side is one long tube and behind branches with some kind of pillows on them and a projection above it.

If you come closer to the three tubes (that I call ‘Tunnels’), you can see through transparent fabric, that something is moving inside. If you ‘open the curtain’, you can see moving image inside. In each tube is a different video, the middle one has a sound.

You turn around and naturally look what is inside the long white tube. You got disappointed because there is nothing. The magic happens when someone stands on the other end of the tube so I named it ‘Communication Tunnel’.

Then the sound of the video that is projected over your head grabs your attention, so you want to sit on the branch, on the pillow that feels like little bean bag. Look up, listen.

What did you just see? What did you just hear? What did you experience?

I gave you everything I had for a simple fee – your time.

Thank you all who came and talked to me on the opening night and during the show, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Love, V.