Habitat
2024
Solo show
«Habitat» as a term refers to the place where lives a species or individual, it has certain characteristics. Often, the animals simply «choose» the place most suitable for their needs - and if the climate changes they migrate to more liveable places. Man, unlike many animals, builds his habitat by himself - subjugating the territory around him, building dams, changing riverbanks.
The idea of this installation is that it’s human nature to control the space around us.
The first part is the space of the house, immersed in darkness. Entering the sounds of the forest - birds singing, grasping the grasshoppers - the viewer gets into a dark room in which the filling does not correspond to the sounds. Here the focus is on spatial, tactile, sound of a person. The loss of visual focus makes us perceive the surrounding space, the objects around it, in a different way. Getting used to the dark and moving deeper, you can find quite familiar for the apartment objects: table, bed, sink - mixed up in a chaotic order, they are easy to stumble on, and the logic of location is difficult to find.
The second part is space, opposite to the first part. Bright enough, it confuses after the first dark part. In terms of imagery, it is an antipode - the first room was a house with natural sounds, but here everything is different.
The last part is a blank, unlit space isolated from the rest. There are no external sounds, internal sounds are also caught by traps. Entering the pitch black, the viewer enters a soft space where the floor bends under his feet and there is an unknown distance to the walls. The sound can be heard here not through your ears, but through your muscles and bones.
The idea of this installation is that it’s human nature to control the space around us.
The first part is the space of the house, immersed in darkness. Entering the sounds of the forest - birds singing, grasping the grasshoppers - the viewer gets into a dark room in which the filling does not correspond to the sounds. Here the focus is on spatial, tactile, sound of a person. The loss of visual focus makes us perceive the surrounding space, the objects around it, in a different way. Getting used to the dark and moving deeper, you can find quite familiar for the apartment objects: table, bed, sink - mixed up in a chaotic order, they are easy to stumble on, and the logic of location is difficult to find.
The second part is space, opposite to the first part. Bright enough, it confuses after the first dark part. In terms of imagery, it is an antipode - the first room was a house with natural sounds, but here everything is different.
The last part is a blank, unlit space isolated from the rest. There are no external sounds, internal sounds are also caught by traps. Entering the pitch black, the viewer enters a soft space where the floor bends under his feet and there is an unknown distance to the walls. The sound can be heard here not through your ears, but through your muscles and bones.