5.12.2019 / 24.11.2019 · Okk / Raum 29 · Berlín
My work begins by setting relationship between a specific space set inside my atelier, a fixed camera and time. Traditional materials like paint and canvas are replaced through colored paper and a room that are used repeatedly over time, resulting in increased productivity. The end product, or artwork, is delivered in two different forms – photograph and video. On one hand, I thoroughly control the production (i.e. make the space look like a flat surface) from the viewpoint of a fixed camera. On the other, I function inside the space in liaison with the tools. This means that I exist both as a manager operating the production and as an active subject working within the space and time frame. In this regard, my work can be interpreted as emancipated labor in the context of a post-fordism point of view. It is an attempt to participate in the social discourse of art, labor and play through the process and experience of production.
An integral part of the project is the media – photographs and videos. The two types of media refer to the two different aspects of artistic labor. Photographs, taken when one installation is completed, have their role as an artwork in a traditional sense as they can be seen as drawing or graphic art. This image, however, merely displays a fraction of space and time, and cannot fully incorporate the multitude of layers that constitute the experimental space and individual narratives of artistic labor(life). Video complements this continuity aspect and better represents the changing(living) nature of the process. Thus, the two media are contradictory yet symmetrical.
Pieces of colored paper used in the first installation are recycled repeatedly in the following works. Industrially produced papers are used over and over and create a circulating flow of images. Fundamentally, all images consist of the same material. Between space, time and the images produced, what is real? What real to me is an aesthetic value that rises from a new being – a being produced through the creativity of labor, or the surplus of being. In the essence of this aesthetic value lies the act of liberated labor. The more abstract labor becomes, the more surplus is produced.