Title: The Garden
of Love
Concept, description, and justification of the project:
Project include an installation
inspired by the life and work of Krzysztof Penderecki. Artist was inspired by
the garden, which Penderecki had been creating for the most part of his life,
bringing plants from all over the world, which was, together with music, his
great passion. The installation merges these passions: the music and the garden,
as they influence each other and the viewer. By touching plants, and even just by
approaching them, viewers trigger sounds of Penderecki’s compositions. Viewers
generate music or create new compositions in interaction plants, which are the
similar to those in Penderecki’s garden, by just moving among them. New,
unwritten symphonies are created on the basis of existing compositions, with
subtle and gentile sounds, with a low level of decibels. Contact with nature enhances
harmony and the feeling of emotional unity with nature, and the sonic character
of the installation makes the aleatorism of modern music appear here as a
tangible experience of the viewer and results from his activity. Viewers become
thus creators.
The vegetation is sprinkled every
hour - the viewer can participate in this ritual of love and care, remaining in
its space. The flooring made of absorbent concrete plates, after moistening,
reveals previously invisible traces of people and animals, executed by using a
transparent hydrophobic substance.
Human, a thinkin particle of the
Universe, guided by rationalism, paradoxically ceased to understand his place
on Earth, losing the sense of unity with the world as a result of treating it
only materially. Rationalism has separate nature from culture and human
consciousness, showing us a flat, one-dimensional, physical world only, which
we have classified and broken up into a gigantic laboratory. In this way, we
killed the entire planet, forgetting about the ecosystem, the creatures
inhabiting it, the inner sphere of human life - his emotions, feelings,
morality, spirituality.
Art should be an
effective tool in achieving the desired harmony in the world, in acceptance and
love also in the face of what seems impossible to love. Respect for the planet,
all people inhabiting it without exception, regardless of gender, origin, race,
worldview, religious and sexual orientation, and for our "lesser
brothers".
Today, through their works, artists are trying to
return to a state in which boundaries between the "I" and the environment
have not yet been drawn. Show viewers that contact with the world should be
based on direct participation, a sense of love and unity of all living things,
and that contacts between people should result from empathy, which is a
condition for acceptance.
