3-part site-specific stop-motion animation using candles.
The soundtrack was specifically created by the composer, performer and sound artist Donatas Bielkauskas, a.k.a. Donis.
My artistic approach focuses on imagination and visual analysis, particularly on the relationship between images fixed by the eye and those held in the mind’s eye. To create multilayered scenes or translate them into sequences of moving images, I rely on my ability to memorize visual elements from everyday surroundings. This form of short-term storage, as I often call it, has been used by countless artists throughout history and exists somewhere between concepts such as fantasy and vision. One aspect that is especially important to me is the idea of material fantasies.¹
“Materiality is an abstraction, in that it never exists in itself; it must be subtracted from the concrete and is always already interlaced with the forms, meanings and relations that have been imposed on it. In other words, it is inseparable from these attributes” (T+U, p. 19).*
From this perspective, I question how metaphors are constructed and imagined, what role myths play in the association of an image (for example, the end of the sky), and how sequences of images become embedded within an artwork.
In EQUINOX-K-7392, I focused on elements from a city and a harbor to construct astronomical sceneries, drawing inspiration from ancient Indo-European myths concerning the origin of the sky.
¹ T+U (Technologie und das Unheimliche), Base Matters, No. IV, p. 13.