Arrested Reality N1
This work explores the relationship between the contemporary ecological crisis and the ways in which it becomes aesthetically and psychologically distanced from everyday experience.
It begins with pollution of oceans and the atmosphere as real but increasingly normalized phenomena, which, through visual and cultural representations, are transformed into decorative imagery and lose their urgency.
The work emerges from a my personal sense of sadness and difficulty of fully rationalizing the scale of environmental destruction. Within the gap between the reality of the problem and its representation, a tension forms between perception and understanding, presence and distance. I want to represent how do I transpit it from destruction to arrested demon.
Through a combination of organic and artificial materials, the work constructs a state in which reality is not directly depicted but instead suspended and fixed into object form. It questions how complex and unsettling phenomena are transformed into aesthetic structures that simultaneously reveal and conceal them.
Arrested Reality focuses on this moment of suspension, when reality ceases to be fluid and becomes captured in material form, positioned between documentation and decoration, presence and control.
