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Time & Space - Space & Time Preface - Maja Chanculovska
Time and Space Died Yesterday.
Why should we go back?
Sonja Dimovska's graphic installation, entitled simply "Time and Space - Space and Time", consists of twenty - one graphic prints, placed inside the space of three vertical ribbons, which suggests a flow images similar to that of photographic film.
As a finger print base, made by the screenprinting technique, the Artist uses plexiglass - an apparantly unusual graphic material. The transparancy of the material and the special graphics placed in that manner causes visual sensations, all of which function within are idea of self - analysis which Sonja uses to present her opinion that "Neither Time or Space are real"; the only timeless and spaceless thing is the person themself. The direction of movement in the reading of the work is a spiral. Everything begins in the mirror - a space which limits, but offers depth. The self - portrait as a print of a moment of sincerity ( "Truth" of time ), is a visual, or even transparent, artistic sign which has its reference inside the viewer.
Self - portrait is an expression of the subjectivity of the Artist, it presents an uncompromising analysis and fragmentation of the viewer; it is a beginning and an end in one, at once. Although the observed figure slowly disappears from view, it gradually reappears in the search for personality as a final definition of the eternal, positive and negative circular movement of all. With the metafigural presentation in a covert way, through rhetorical and realistic - seeming narrative presentation, the Artist delivers temporal and special fluctual truth, placed in opposition to the objective world.
Maja Chanculovska
(Preface of the catalog of the exhibition held at Cultural Center Tocka, Skopje, November 2003)
Why should we go back?
Sonja Dimovska's graphic installation, entitled simply "Time and Space - Space and Time", consists of twenty - one graphic prints, placed inside the space of three vertical ribbons, which suggests a flow images similar to that of photographic film.
As a finger print base, made by the screenprinting technique, the Artist uses plexiglass - an apparantly unusual graphic material. The transparancy of the material and the special graphics placed in that manner causes visual sensations, all of which function within are idea of self - analysis which Sonja uses to present her opinion that "Neither Time or Space are real"; the only timeless and spaceless thing is the person themself. The direction of movement in the reading of the work is a spiral. Everything begins in the mirror - a space which limits, but offers depth. The self - portrait as a print of a moment of sincerity ( "Truth" of time ), is a visual, or even transparent, artistic sign which has its reference inside the viewer.
Self - portrait is an expression of the subjectivity of the Artist, it presents an uncompromising analysis and fragmentation of the viewer; it is a beginning and an end in one, at once. Although the observed figure slowly disappears from view, it gradually reappears in the search for personality as a final definition of the eternal, positive and negative circular movement of all. With the metafigural presentation in a covert way, through rhetorical and realistic - seeming narrative presentation, the Artist delivers temporal and special fluctual truth, placed in opposition to the objective world.
Maja Chanculovska
(Preface of the catalog of the exhibition held at Cultural Center Tocka, Skopje, November 2003)
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