An Artistic Process in Canary Wharf
After taking part in a collective exhibition in Canary Wharf and going there every day at different times to make my video installation in the space itself, I felt that futuristic place as a unhuman space, made of power, where thousand of people have a journey every day to work and make business. It is weird seeing that after 6pm this place turns into a desert where the big buildings made mainly with glass, reflect the seclusion between real human and social patterns. After this exhibition, I had the chance to make a solo exhibition, thinking about it I started to compare my feelings about this place with other artists so from that point I decided to give them Canary Wharf as a topic. My final artistic product is a series of videos which display the process of the artists as an artwork and not their final artwork. The videos have been displayed in Prague TINA B Contemporary Art Festival in 2012 and at Europian Horizons exhibition at the Provincial Museum of Savolninnan in Finland from 15th on March to 5th of May 2013.
As an artist, my artistic research focus on social and psychological issues and dealt by a personal and intimate point of view and presented through media such as photography and video.
"An Artistic Process in Canary Wharf" investigates the creative process that lies beneath the final work of art, aiming to reveal what happens inside and outside the artists whilst they create their works.
Ten young artists have been selected and invited to realise specific artworks based on their ideas about the project and Canary Wharf neighborhood (where the exhibition took place at the end of February).
As a creator and art director of this project, I have followed and recorded by camcorder all their creative process from the initial ideas of their final works.
An Artistic Process in Canary Wharf
Watch all the videos here
Weeks before the first meeting on the boat (place of the exhibition) I realased to the artists my concept about In Out Board, this was their starting point for their research
IN… Places containers of life, those are passing or permanent, each of these are different, they’ve got identity made of social patters, words, which go against. The never ending life, fight with the deep sentiment, they are scared to show it to theirselves and to the others. Conscious or not that all this is against to the nature, those positive or negative features, however they are, we can not live without it.
OUT… The whole contemporary and historical crisis of humans comes representing by power, as desire of discover and dominate things, places or different cultures.
BOARD… As a space, the land of light and shadow, where all meets and collides, surface of a dry land, greedy but sometimes generous, it smells of joy, matrix of unexpected events, supporting platform made up of sharp blade’s edges.
