'SWEEP AND WEEP, WEEP AND SWEEP: under, over, in, out, away'
Video work portraying the artist performing and her outdoor installation.
The video can be viewed on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KveHXlbHojc
My work entails the investigation of what I call the “evolution of landscape”, a process started and effected by modern life-style and consumerism.
Looking at how man-made objects are very much transforming and creating new environments by becoming more integrated into nature has been my focus.
My artificial momentary landscapes documented and combined to performative events that often result into a video work, are the materialization of an ongoing observation and questioning of how the “plastic” and the natural realms interact with one another and thereby come to create new ephemeral orders.
Plastic bags have been my main medium; they epitomize the perfect and quintessential discarded object. To me plastic bags are symbolic embryos that contain our lifestyles and are the vessels that carry them out in their journey. Their contradictory qualities mirror the neurotic course of our life: plastic bags are in-fact both worthless and useful, disposable and recyclable, flimsy and strong, ephemeral and eternal and above all they are universal.
The fundamental strive is to understand if our environmental crisis is a cultural, therefore a social and ultimately an existential crisis of the individual or most probably all nature intended instead.
I want to consciously experience for myself and therefore underline the relationship, or the conflict, between culture and nature, and how they influence, reflect and are depending from one anther.
I like to lure the viewers into a virtual lyrical extension of modern life that substitutes the old idealized concept of nature and landscape with a romanticised contemporary one.
Ultimately I cannot help but mimicking the cyclic and repetitive rhythms of nature to explore the tensions between the contradictions of our neurotic but beautiful world, where the desire for creation and destruction seem to coexist side by side.
