Boîte (Young Visual Artist Award DENES 2013 - Youth Cultural Center, Skopje)
Boîte (French for Box) is directly inspired by "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, namely by one of the book illustrations. Boîte is a factual reconstruction of the sheep in a box image from the book.
As in the book, this work refers to a space created out of frustration, in the attempt to draw the perfect sheep. The author draws a box in which the sheep is non-existent and left to be imagined by the viewer. The space (the box) created out of this frustration points to the fact that the object is not that important and can be always defined and interpreted by the viewer, but also by the space in which it is located.
The work Boîte also speaks about a common disassociation of art as only object producing work, which are bearers of art itself. In this case the objectivity is switched with a medium, i.e. a container of an object that cannot be seen, but imagined.
Boîte (French for Box) is directly inspired by "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, namely by one of the book illustrations. Boîte is a factual reconstruction of the sheep in a box image from the book.
As in the book, this work refers to a space created out of frustration, in the attempt to draw the perfect sheep. The author draws a box in which the sheep is non-existent and left to be imagined by the viewer. The space (the box) created out of this frustration points to the fact that the object is not that important and can be always defined and interpreted by the viewer, but also by the space in which it is located.
The work Boîte also speaks about a common disassociation of art as only object producing work, which are bearers of art itself. In this case the objectivity is switched with a medium, i.e. a container of an object that cannot be seen, but imagined.
