Ludmila Bebjakova: video installation

ART WORK:
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ART INSTALLATION

STATEMENT

I am interested in the observation of physical forms: the psychological responses of observers, responses of human senses, and issues related to 'intersubjectivity'. Within my installations I consider the observer’s experience. I play with the juxtaposition of fantasy (within the viewer’s imagination) with what truly exists (within the space). My practice is concerned with adding illusive surfaces and objects into a ‘real’ configuration to challenge the viewer’s perceptual judgement. My installations include lighting which creates impressions of new dimensions of space.

TEXT

The distance between reality and fantasy, logic and uncertainty is very volatile. I want viewers to experience doubt in reality through occurrence. My intention is to create a completely artificial environment; a distortion of reality, where in human logic (in interpretation of events), and the existence of elements in the space would manipulate with observers’ sensation and how they engage with it.

I want to exceed the binaries between tangible and intangible, visible and noticeable or reality and fantasy in everyday happenings; but also the manipulation, the ‘power’ of space and time, state of mind and surrounding in which we are included. It is the reflection of the opposition in natural occupation of time and space and our ‘engagement in the world ‘, ‘our control’ which we can also have beyond happenings.