YESNO
YESNO, a world of contradiction, with the book as its basic element. We have pushed this medium aside, it is too slow and old-fashioned. A book is passé. I am still, placed outside the movement and rush of this civilization. I am turning off notifications, I am visiting nature. I am taking unwanted books from book shelters, filling the emptiness with the nonsensical word “YESNO” or its antonym “NOYES”. Automatic ink drawings are created as a result.
Sometimes, one gesture or signature is enough. At other times, I am adding symbols or the nonsensical two words “do-lorem ipsum” to the artworks. The impossible has become possible. Therefore, I am connecting the words YES and NO together and creating a single unit, I am acknowledging and denying the drawing, and finally, connecting these opposite terms. In books, I find a slowing down, a refuge from the maddening world outside.
*Lorem ipsum is a name for a nonsensical text in Latin, used as a default beginning of every graphic document when inserting a block of text. The original text comes from the book „On the ends of good and evil” written by Cicero. The preposition „do-„ is placed in front of the word „lorem“ under „dolorem ipsum“. We can translate it as “pain itself”. I am deconstructing the nonsensical typesetting text in this way and placing its original meaning into the word. I am pointing out how we forgot to be interested in the original meaning of the words that are placed in front of us. Even if they are nonsensical.
As a part of the exhibition YESNO, I decided to work with performer Celestina Minichova and Kyoto band, both of whom have a similar principle of creating a performance piece. The performer chose various words from the pages torn from old books based on an algorithm created by the band. The performance was presented during the opening of the exhibition. Visitors could observe and decipher my drawings using another medium of art.
Kyoto band and Celestina Minichova concert/performance, 1 hour, 9 min, 5 s
A4 - A space for contemporary culture, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2022
Photography credit: Richard Hronsky
