Apogee

2018. - The works for this exhibition are realized in different media (digital photography, installation, video, poetry). They thematize the life energy of man and the world in which he lives and his consciousness. Works consider how much dynamics of duality, and collision of contradictions (all possible contrasts in life), influence the individual, so much that they cause division and tension, and natural tendency for departure from the fields of different dualities to finding one's own center. Showing relationship of different life energies, the sea of the subconscious, harmony of mind, body and soul, and the presence in now. 

The exhibition aims to focus attention on raising the level of awareness of one's creations in his life. How satisfied are we by giving values on this Earth with our energy here? At the apogee - or at its peak of technological development - today’s man is actually in the loss of the natural equilibrium of the planet, more out of balance every day, because of the vast majority of irresponsible exploitation of the delicate energy eco system from which it is fed. Farthest, in losing. 

Video Apogee speaks symbolically about how much are we inclined to expect already known things in our life, and there for we do not create a new reality. The problem of creating a certain addiction (materialism or the same thoughts that we are thinking) and developing of the overprotective armor in our psycho energy structure, which doesn’t allow growing or expanding of our being. 

All the works are showing an attempt to ‘pierce the armor’, exiting from conditionality to unconditionality, from the head to the heart, and the insecurity of leaving old to create new. Identifying and opening new portals, changing perception that leads to new understandings and realities, and the highlight of the arrival in one's own source of energy and giving from it.

 

Cosmogony 

or COLLISION RHYTHMS OF CONFLICTING VARIABLES 

2017. - Beginning of creating a photo series for a group exhibition Cosmogony, as the work later grew the concept is called Apogee. Trying to capture energies of a micro and macro cosmos and its influence on our being. Attempting to answer on how much we can feel energies around us in our environment, the rhythm of confrontations in duality of micro and macro variables, their clash, and how the energy produced by this collision influence or impassion our own energies. 

We, as humans, are maybe exactly at the middle of the path between a micro and a macro cosmos - but to say energetically, there is no importance where we stand - because all the dualities and contrasts we see in the photography are ultimately united into one - in our energy structure. Everything is in us. We become symbolic set of energy contradictions depicted in the photos. There is only a present state, and present energies will change during time, so that is why photos are symbolic representation of our internal energy as it is and as it changes.

Photos are made at certain time in a day because of needed sunlight, shadows of different objects on plain paper are recorded as they are, without any computer graphics intervention.

 

Masterchef poetry

2012. - A work in progress - seventeen photos formed over six years, as a documentation for daily food preparation - cooking experiments. Works have been printed for group exhibition Structure of the reversions without any additional computer graphics intervention.

Food becomes an object, caught in the act of preparing, consuming, rejecting, rotting... The visual attraction of what we enter in the digestive tract calls for thinking about our eating habits and our body. We live in the world of objects and treat our bodies as objects. Do we treat food as an object or as energy? Food is joining and cooperating with our body. What we eat everyday leads to health, a basis for life. It is a very important factor that we are often unaware of. We don't have the time to think about physical change - change of energy. Change of vibration. Relaxation and certainty of nourishment. 

The masterpiece of Le Chef poetry printed on kitchen cloths and exhibited underneath photos is inspired by a dreadfulness of everyday life. It is a nightmare of feelings and perceptions: 

Masterchef poetry 

So backwater, apathetic sounds of masturbating with stylish kitchen units, 
Synthesis of choking feelings makes me clank the plate of your nonsense,  
Here lies recently fattened turkey served for overeating after prayer,  
Soulless swish! Sucking behavior and tumbling bones of the remains disturbs me,  
Boiling usually erases memories on digesting your phony exterior,  
Sweeping used to be purification from pain, nowadays: sweeping another...

Chickenation

2008. - Imaginative territory within digital photography media served me well in this symbolical, suggestive manipulation with organic objects – parts of poultry body, mostly chicken legs. Objects are theatrical in their pose for creating easier communication with viewer, similar to a living person portrait. Chicken leg is presented like a human (puppet), influenced by collective around him, by political, religious and social problems. Topics of this open dialog inside pictures are various humanity problems; from political leadership, institutional hierarchy, religious intolerance, multicultural differences, violence, (non)ecological environment, criminal and law enforcement, technology, AI, economic disparity, etc. 

When we know that human values are influenced by existing economic, capitalistic structures of organized societies, controlled media, politically established institutions, national ''agenda'' and so on, we are obligated as individuals to question our behavior, decisions, expectations, morality.  Sickness of human collective is sickness of a person and solutions of the problems rely totally on our consciousness and our effort as individuals to join together and organize new ways of thinking and working together. 

Chicken legs are here to present a society problem and maybe activate change in our sense of direction and purpose, first by realizing the problem we have. Objects create visual shock intentionally, with symbolic, photo-report simplicity in which the problem is shown. Digital intervention with camera, computer software and outer – after print intervention is used so that a viewer could correlate to a problem of societies and cultures under constant political manipulation with truth (creating false realities). 

Whisk purge

2007. - Works on canvas, carpet and other textile materials are representing process of cleaning the mind, kind of mental and emotional detox. The cleaning process is manifested as a painting process. Recognizing internal and external lies and developing a critical view of ourselves and the environment starts with destroying a false, pure image (plain canvas). The textile material is a symbol of a man's false marketing of themselves, which is removed by cleansing – whisking, whipping. Tool/brush for painting is traditional means called - klofer - nowadays mostly forgotten, old tool for whisking, beating the carpet until it is clean.

Klofer whisking has been taken as an ideal means for the implementation of IPT (inner purity theory), written as graduation concept for final works - Klofer čistka. Second word čistka is used to describe cleaning process. It was a political word, which means a review of party members.  Whisking = cleaning is a metaphor for awakening the consciousness. The aim is to remove false imagery or ideology and to be suddenly awake from slumber of every day patterns in life. Opening the mouth, which has been often shut and forced to silence by social, political or religious norms of behavior. Clearing accumulated data, hindering the entry of new ideas and so needed change. Violence of a purge appears to be necessary if it leads to the required change of a predetermined, uniform view. That is why this sort of painting is a violent process, domestic, non-technological and good for emotional release.