Landszaft kamienny
SOON_74, Starak Foundation, Warsaw (PL), 2024
The pile of pebbles is a metaphor for trying to control chaos. The process of creating an image is a struggle between the theoretically infinite number of possible combinations and the awareness of the applicable laws of physics. The role of the artist here is to wishfully recreate alternative scenarios for a given arrangement of bodies, rather than to create something entirely new. Taking friction, texture and gravity into account, each image is a reminder of the collision between ideas and matter, the inevitable clash between desire and reality.
The second part of the installation is a video showing chaos in a closed system. A pile of dirty stones is treated with a stream of water that washes over it at the point of direct contact. Despite the energy invested, the result is no better than the original. The water fills the entire container, making it impossible to see the already-washed stones.
The background of the installation is a colour field painting whose colours evoke organic associations. Its texture and expressive afterimages provide a visual contrast to the white and black stones. The piles of stones spread out in one space, together with the abstract painting and the video, create a stone landscape — an environment where the viewer moves in one axis of the system.
