2021
The project is a visual representation of well-known superstitions and prejudices related to broken and shattered things. Probabply everyone have received from their grandmother not only a salad plate in shape of fish but also a slew of other signs and omens that are worked out to the unconscious automatism. Something like, “Do not look in the broken mirror”; “Do not keep broken things, because fate will be beaten”; “Look in the mirror when you return home for a forgotten thing” and so on. Such statements are familiar and inconspicuous in their character. Such irrationalisms, which take the form of attachment states and neuroses, are intended to protect against disaster and are an attempt to master the uncontrollable, independent of human action processes. What are these signs, that are like not-ingrained collective obsessive-compulsive disorder? The level of emotional tension that arises as a result of attempts to control the situation, works in the opposit direction: the more prejudices a person uses, the greater the need to use them. The project’s objects represent certain sings and circumstances which they should prevent, as they are those shattered items that must not be stored. In this way, the artist attempts, albeit not without fear, to break free from the imposed and unhealthy way of dealing with the surrounding reality and personal experience.