RELATION / newspaper, size variable, Krems 2015
The installation on window glass created during the Krems AIR artist in residency program. The starting point was the huge
windows in my studio room, which I often glance out to the city. Watching the
word from the distance, I remembered
Gaston Bachelard’s novel: The Poetics of Space (1958). In the essay the house
represents a safe place, where the
rooms are an imaginative expression of our private self. We design our interior space according to our
needs and desires, so we can feel free within it. The
attic for example good to hide things, like our unconscious, and the basement
is where our fears stay. But what is the window than?
Windows
occupies a space between the personal and the public. Looking out the window, we are aware of a
place that exists between the internal and the external, a space where we can
dream of achievements and plans as we peer into the
world and see possibilities. So the windows are our eyes, and awareness of the
reality, watching fearfully the world and its happenings.
The appearance of the scene
out of the window might not chance, but when we know far away happenings, we fill
the view with emotions, and fears. When we read the daily news in the newspaper
– a strange material, what we throw away in the next day – we project the
happenings of the world into our surrounding.
I
cut out the picture from the daily newspaper, and covered the
window with it. In this way we can observe our city with the titles of the
articles. By this we can start to search the problems within our community, or
we can see the changing and circulating topics, and wonder how our life is
related to them.
