LIBERATION
(working title)
Motto: “enslaved hearth, free mind”
Concept:
The Collapse of the Temple of Ideology.
“In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God…”
The samples of the Word came down to mankind. And knowledge alienated emotions, and irrational life turned into a theory.
Thus Man lost its inner child. Instead were created intellectual idols.
When those idols got a life their own, the spiritual culture materialized and became civilization. But this is a cynical, arrogant and opportunist form of cohabitation, where under the highest ideas are born mankind's biggest tragedies.
Who is the one while reading the “Book” wouldn't loose his trust about the World and have the bravery to go back into the child's world?
We have to free the mind in order to not to loose the quality of surprise. Wasn't mankind's destiny hidden in dreams?
Description:
Famous ideological symbols are drawn on big billboards and canvases.
They are placed in such way as to represent a room.
The atmosphere is gloomy and oppressing. The spectator finding himself in these surroundings unwillingly looks for his familiar signs.
The room has two doors. One entrance, the other dissimulated. Looking closely he would be able to find it behind the symbol “free mind”. If he happens to have a childhood hobby, he falls into this search and will open that door. Just on the threshold of that door he would find a wired silhouette of a man, through which he would find himself in a child's world. In that room, everything is in white and no consumer's good, only inhibited children's drawing and colourful balls and balloons.
Construction:
The boards and canvases that are covering the room are of different size:
100X70 to 50X30. They must show that they have been handmaid and have different texture. Are also used applications and cut of words. The cardboards are placed in such way that they look as if a stone structure. Only between some stones can you see some spot of blood.
Each picture talks about a idea and theory from which is built the “Temple of the Universal History” and where each stone was set with the price of the blood buried under childhood dreams.
There about 160 pictures, changeable depending on situations.
The total square footage is about 50sm. The childhood world is larger.
