Immersive/ olfactory objects.
*Nosense was a situation in 2020 when you might have had some feelings and senses, but it gave you no sense and you took it as nonsense.
Sacralization. Each of our memories we keep as the greatest value and relic. Every memory is precious.
We collect these experiences during our lifetime. I created my own cabinet with a collection of my memories of London using English traditional ways of collecting and organizing materials. Each object has a name, title, location point and a personal creative description. Here I am presenting just a part of my collection. Scented objects.
Fragmentariness. Our memory is fragmentary, and we can never accurately fully describe what we saw, even yesterday if it was just yesterday or one hour ago. This is one of the main principles how our memory and brain work. Our self-conceptions are remarkable fragile things – as fragile as memory itself. Philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the philosopher who claims, for example, that what makes me today the very same person as I was yesterday, is, basically, the fact that I can now remember what I did or experienced yesterday. So memory, for Locke, is what actually determines who I am.
On this page you see just several fragments of «nOsense» exhibition (as you can't fully remember it, return to it in two days and check your memory).
Symbols. A form to represent memories and feelings about London is to recreate them in the form of memorials and sarcophagi. These are my trophies and my homage to this city. This tradition was also borrowed from the classical tombstones and burials of monarchs and saints. Sculptures represent pedestals which are covered with draperie.
Putting nothing on a pedestal means to express the suspended moments in the history of 2020. It felt like an empty year with nothing to preserve after the terrible events. Looking forward to the future, the empty pedestal also represents the unknown, the fear of going through an endless nightmare where memory will dissolve into time.
In this context the church atmosphere including sound, smell and spiritual light that immerse the sculptures brings us the sensation of comfort and hope that we all need.
Sense. I only collect invisible memories. Then I transform and verbalise them into visible imagery. But still they are not material. Nobody can fully reflect what they see, feel and explain what that all means.
