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exhibition by Sharmila Nezovic |
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exhibition by Sharmila Nezovic |
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“Some people say consciousness is an appetite for living... it is also a hunger”
A. Artaud, Paris 1947 |
 "Dialogue 1997" |
Loco is madness.
Loco is motion. Loco is also levels of consciousness. |
 "Protest 1997" |
In striving for a deeper awareness of the self and existence, the search inevitably takes us to deeper levels of understanding. On my journey the “layers” become more tangible when translated texturally into paint.
I love to juxtapose impressions of the architectonic - the rigid urban grid of inner city living - against the wild and spontaneous shapes that spring from deep within the psyche.
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"Sparked 1997"
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In this show I'm using the gritty, industrial colours of bitumen, concrete, steel, glass and neon, contrasted against direct and improvised movements filled with impulse and tactility. The gestures are at once constrained Ë by hard edges and facts and yet, free to remain raw, alive and passionate.
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By using everyday issues as starting points, to then develop and refine the surfaces - to find the music inside the meaning - to transcend the mundane.
To enter into Loco. |
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designed, directed and performed by |
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| Video animation by Sulja Raam Nezovic |
In this Loco performance, I am attempting to explore spatially, ideas around the non - literal, therefore including some of the processes of abstraction - key issues that also relate to my painting practice. To transcend the known / familiar contexts and to play-off contrasts with visual and textural layering. Using sound to intensify emotion and to focus on transformation, with its inherent capacity to ritualise and tap into the sacred.. `. to again place human gesture into an urban context. I believe audiences can be allowed much more freedom in making up their own interpretations - opening the way for many levels of consciousness. ............................................................................................. The text chosen is about Antonin Artaud who was the French artist who started a revolution in modern theatre, which continues to unfold to this day. He was for a time affiliated with the Surrealists, but he is primarily known for his “Theatre of Cruelty” : a theatre of the body, of ritual and of transformation. Where audiences would actually be moved to their own experiences by having their senses stimulated at a more primal level. This was truly a confronting and radical breakaway from the codes of tastefulness of his day, based of course, on traditional draw Ting-room drama. “A theatre made with flesh and blood”.
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Acknowledgements
© Sharmilla Nesovic 1998 Sound Tape Rigel Best - technical production Henri Hunsinger - “the voice” The Tanks Art Centre - acoustics David Kelley (British writer & critic) - text (manipulated excerpt from “Modernism and the European Unconscious” published by St. Martin’s Press USA 1990). Set Totem Design Studios - designer chair and set construction Assistant Direction Sheena Roberts - feedback “machine”.
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