"Ce n'est pas la nature morte "

"Ce n'est pas la nature morte "

“This is not a still life”

Through the observation of the world by visual content of the ancient Japanese paper art (Origami) and canons of the contemporary art practice, sculpture comes in the direct contact with photography; more precisely it represents reality, per-condition to designate a photo. Directing and positioning few origami figurines in the natural environment can be interpreted depending on our affiliations and perception capabilities. Making a contact with the observer these photos represents a lot of ecological, existential and issues related to the human perception. By analysing, in this case a photo, through the manner of famous Belgium surrealist Rene Magritte, I am using the same approach to the visual content in order to provoke observers conditional reality perception that surround him and give strength to the percipient in order to became too sensitive to his surrounding and aware of the visual game and representation language.

Serial of photography under the title “Ce n'est pas la nature morte” –“This is not still life” emphasises the question of double representation, the one where the piece of paper becomes a bird surrogate, and where the photography represents the same one. In the way the observer is lead through the world of fantasy and reality. For example: if a child would have been observing one of the exhibited photographs where, realistically speaking, represented examples of modelled paper are having animal characteristics, I can solemnly declare that anyone, not only a child, would react as if there was a real animal creature in front. But if we let ourselves to scan the photography, we could certainly notice differences and consume the same content later on.

The very name “This is not a still life” doesn't exclude possibility to becoming one. Nature and natural wealth on the planet Earth, has changed drastically, and getting more and more discriminated each day, where the human carelessness contributed a lot. The same nature is today rebelling and represents huge danger for alive and still world (flora and fauna) and for the human kind as well.

Floods and fires are happening all over our planet causing abnormal damage to the inhabitants that are left without running water and basic life comestibles, homes etc.

The title of this project actually discovers word game where the meaning have much wider meaning in accordance with the visual content. The interpretation of this work is not denotative in any sense, and simply defined. Through this serial with represented natural habitat, as places we are sucking the life out, I am trying to raise conciseness of unconsciousness, maintain existence of that nature and remind of the questions: what we are and who we are without it, the same nature we are born to, live and create?