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Senses Preface - Marika Bochvarova Plavevska
Ms. Dimovska has chosen the human senses as a theme of her multi-layered project, conceived as a graphic installation (plotter prints in big dimensions). In addition to their visual initiation that represents the primary perceptive functions of the ear, mouth, eye, hand, nose, the senses have also provided extension and cohesion of some new knowledge. Her reflection has led her to the realization that each sense has its own colour that matches the sophisticated centres of our body, the so called chakras. The role of these centres of energy is interpreted through the experience of the Hindu philosophy that prefers meditation as a means of opening the seven chakras. This takes us to spiritual states that facilitate the contact with the universe. The number seven is for the senses, where to the usual five: hearing, taste, sight, touch, smell, two more are added i.e. intuition (as the third eye-emotions) and intelligence. The process is completed by matching the symbols of the seven colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple. The intention of Ms. Dimovska to direct us to the explanation of our esoteric states, which are rarely reached, is achieved through her analytical approach.
This work of art is realized by a diagrammatic construction of visual structures whose optic appearance is made with the use of a digital photography (used as an index, photo fact, in this particular case as the quotations from her portrait) while the effects restructure the appearance in the process of making the computer print. In this way certain literalness of meaning is felt, the symbols signs initiate a narration which tends to turn to allegorical presentation with a metaphysical link of the visible and invisible. The media mimesis makes her symbolic presentation intentional and subjective at the same time.
This is a systematic and serial work of art because in its reception the individual parts are not important, but the way they are included in the concept as a whole.
Ms. Dimovska has accepted the new spiritual climate of the postmodernist atmosphere. She accomplishes her artistic and intellectual engagement with forms of alleviated communication with the viewer. The electronic digital technology enables the function of these views, which although preceded by reality, they more importantly reflect the emotional information.
Marika Bochvarova Plavevska
(Preface of the catalog of the exhibition held at OGS - City Museum Skopje, May 2004)
This work of art is realized by a diagrammatic construction of visual structures whose optic appearance is made with the use of a digital photography (used as an index, photo fact, in this particular case as the quotations from her portrait) while the effects restructure the appearance in the process of making the computer print. In this way certain literalness of meaning is felt, the symbols signs initiate a narration which tends to turn to allegorical presentation with a metaphysical link of the visible and invisible. The media mimesis makes her symbolic presentation intentional and subjective at the same time.
This is a systematic and serial work of art because in its reception the individual parts are not important, but the way they are included in the concept as a whole.
Ms. Dimovska has accepted the new spiritual climate of the postmodernist atmosphere. She accomplishes her artistic and intellectual engagement with forms of alleviated communication with the viewer. The electronic digital technology enables the function of these views, which although preceded by reality, they more importantly reflect the emotional information.
Marika Bochvarova Plavevska
(Preface of the catalog of the exhibition held at OGS - City Museum Skopje, May 2004)
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