Toilet and Barrel
Mutro Art Group and Księgarnia / Wystawa present a chamber exhibition of two Ukrainian artists -Ivan Sai and Tymofii Maksymenko. The project called "Toilet and Barrel" presents two interactive installations made within Archispera studio classes on Intermedia faculty of Krakow Academy of Fine Arts.
The works displayed are reflecting on issue of presence of a human in the world where he exists, relations and ties of an individual to surrounding space, physical and mental.
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Every time you look at the mirror what do you expect to see? What if is not yourself? Does it "me" something that exists as a constant from the day of one's birth till the day of one's death, or more likely "me" is just a concept of temporary state, affected by different factors , unstable and constantly modified? This work is a study on a concept of "moment" and perception of "self" in that exact moment. The aim of the Mirror is to lift the viewer out of familiar time-space, incuding the inner space of "self. In my mirror you will never see youself, but only a previous viewer. Yet, you are leaving a trace,so the next one who faces the mirror meets you, when you are already gone.
One of main human features is an eternal thirst for something he cannot reach. The object of desire is always somewhere else, and usually it does not exist as something physical, but lives as an abstract idea in the subconsciousness. At the moment when Sacrum approaches Profanum and crosses the border of reality, when idea finds material incarnation, it dies immediately. The only way to remember a dream after waking up is not to recollect it.