Acedia Tristitia 2010.
Title(from left to right): "Walt Disney in Moscow"; "Mythologies I,II,III,IV";"Mythological disorder"; "Belgrade, la nouvelle Jerusalem celeste".
Size: 125 cm X 85 cm
Drawings on paper.
History as narrative: mimesis+ time = narrative
The questions of memory, forgetting, systematic attempts to represent the past, human experience through historical perspective or fiction, and identity have a common basis: time. Mimesis, as defined by Aristotle, is the creative reproduction of certain acts through narratives. To represent a specific event through a text, a play or an image partially gives room to the (re)interpretation of the past. Memory (understood as basis permitting the construction of collective identitites) is a narrative construction that could initiate healing, catharsis especially when we are dealing with traumatic past. The first question is the one refering to new readings of a certain event-tragedy. It is problematic due to the introduction of several plausible readings-interpretations of one of its part or wholeness. Secondly, a narrative facilitates the articulation of narrative identity, both on historical as much as on individual level. These drawings represent the attempts to analyse memories that are private-family memories and memories refering to external life and its socio-political context.
Size: 125 cm X 85 cm
Drawings on paper.
History as narrative: mimesis+ time = narrative
The questions of memory, forgetting, systematic attempts to represent the past, human experience through historical perspective or fiction, and identity have a common basis: time. Mimesis, as defined by Aristotle, is the creative reproduction of certain acts through narratives. To represent a specific event through a text, a play or an image partially gives room to the (re)interpretation of the past. Memory (understood as basis permitting the construction of collective identitites) is a narrative construction that could initiate healing, catharsis especially when we are dealing with traumatic past. The first question is the one refering to new readings of a certain event-tragedy. It is problematic due to the introduction of several plausible readings-interpretations of one of its part or wholeness. Secondly, a narrative facilitates the articulation of narrative identity, both on historical as much as on individual level. These drawings represent the attempts to analyse memories that are private-family memories and memories refering to external life and its socio-political context.
