DIMITRA TSOUTSIA
Bio-Info-Artworks
Create Your First Project
Start adding your projects to your portfolio. Click on "Manage Projects" to get started
Never seem to win
Date
2023
In the framework of a culture of competition, the urge for success is intensifying, and the possible collective or personal failures seem threatening.
The path paved from intention to realization in art, makes the confrontation with failure permanent. The ways that 'fault', as a concept, is imprinted to the human psyche are revealed: the sense of incompleteness, doubt, weakness, and the ever-present fear of not belonging. The concept of error involves a sense of destabilization and the element of the unpredictable. Reflecting on the idea of 'wrongness' is a wandering condition, a process of immersion in the intermediate realm between that what is and what could be, the disentanglement of error as a vital part of the nature and rhythm of things.
The works presented attempt primarily to explore this duality of the idea of fallacy (as that of error or of unnecessary transfiguration), starting from its semantic affinity with the concept of error. To err involves the infinite, a drift without beginning or end, the loss of control and destination, the potential condition of a perpetual rotation. At the same time, it describes illusion, the navigation of an apparent reality. What concerns this body of work is a sense of a metaphorical incessant suspension, a state without a final purpose or result, representing that which can fail at any moment . Using the loss of structure in plastic space (i.e. its disintegration, forming a kind of painted assembly, a painted collage) or the representation of images that are repeated in different ways – such as the screen or the state of rotation – the works attempt to explore an internal record of the sense of 'floating'. They end up narrating around a fictional-mediated reality, staging it right on the borderline between action and inaction, wakefulness and surrender.