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COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
In this collaborative installation, my collaborator, Davor Ciglar and I brought together two halves of the same story. Presence, absence, the residue that is left behind by a life lived and perhaps even a lifetime lost and forgotten.
In my “half” a single line of text repeats on a lavender surface and yet the author’s identity is inconclusive, the viewer is left to determine whether they are studying the author or perhaps they are the authors themselves. The text begins and ends in specificity and yet, pools and stretches across a vast space, at times muddled and at times clear – not unlike the span of a lifetime. What begins as uttered words are removed from a context left for the viewer to determine and begins to take shape and form only to come to rest in a sea of changing images which are steeped in the nostalgia of no personal consequence.
With Ciglar’s “half” notions of presence are seen on the tumbled sheets in several narrow beds, apposing dialogues come to the surface: has the bed been vacant long, are the sheets still warm from the bodies that molded them… This is posed with a sense of time that is left uncertain in the mind of the viewer, pages of a book still moving in the breeze evoke a sense that the person is soon to return and yet perhaps the person is long gone and we are only witness to the memory of their ever being there.
In both pieces which come together to frame memories of what remains both physically and metaphorically we perhaps are left with questions rather than answers – generalizations rather than specifics. Things we share in common even if we take no notice of their shifting presence in our lives – they are perhaps all that remains of a day.
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COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Detail
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Shot
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Shot
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Detail
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Detail
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Detail
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Detail
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
Installation Detail
COLLABORATIVE INSTALLATION WITH CROATIAN/ITALIAN ARTIST DAVOR CIGLAR, VARIABLE SIZE, 2010
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