We are Looking at the Same Sky
artist in residence
installation, video, drawings, performative reading
SÍM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2024
installation, video, drawings, performative reading
SÍM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2024
During a month-long residency I wanted to elaborate my ongoing artistic research on questions of relation between drawing (line), language (word), memory (time) and landscape, universe (space).
I focused on exploring of the human ability to observe, to look, to watch and see, to perceive and remember, and thus to process these subjective perceptions into universal relations. My research also outlines questions of the reliability or, on the contrary, the questionability of subjective perspective and individual memory, the perception of time, change.The essential focus of the project was an attempt to depict ephemeral natural phenomena, as brief as a blink of an eye or, on the contrary, those that last for tens or hundreds of years and are unobservable for a single human lifetime.
Working with the imagery of the ephemeral phenomenon such as sky, darkness, the lightness of the snow, tides, Moon and its phases, borderd between ocean and sky I created a series of drawings and watercolors along with a longscale video of a waterfall, where the falling of the water is slowed down to almost unperceivable motion.
However, my main focus was on ellaborating a text - kind of a hybrid of poem, essay, reflection on language and nature. This was exhibited in a form of handwritten text on the wall and a performative reading session.
A video work And drop by drop the world has vanished: https://vimeo.com/1018885805
Art residency was supported using public funding by Slovak Art Council.









