Conversion into desert
Virtual exhibition on the arium.xyz platform
Linked to the NFT auction https://arium.xyz/spaces/isla
Commisisioned by Fundacja Galerii Smierc Frajerom in Warsaw.
2022
The desert sucked him dry, the stones spoke his thoughts, the cave echoed his feelings, and so he himself became desert, stone and cave.
C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus
The body marks the boundary between us and the outside. The sense of touch is the first to develop. The embryonic position is the original position of our body. I helps to find the border between ourselves and the world. Instinctively, the holes and grottoes into which we can fit become a safe area, a part of us, and we become part of them.
By interacting with them, we interact with the body. We experience them. We touch and we are touched. We are touched so we are made real, made safe. Regularly repeated behavior, adjusting the body to the conditions of life and the functions it performs, leads to transformation and evolution. Converting into desert.