LUIZAJAN
BY EVITA LUIZA




An interactive installation of 3 screen prints created by using UV light. Basic, primary colours and ascetic paper allows you to focus on the image without distracting from the main message. The plot is a pun of metaphors: happy is up & sad is down - in a literal and figurative sense. In English, 'up' and 'down' are used to indicate good / bad mood. I have put personal meaning into it, by indicating an egg cell as a subject of negativity, symbolising the Loss. Whereas pomegranate has an opposite effect meaning hope, fertility and wealth. The "negative" inscription can be read only by holding the mirror to the drawing. Thus, it creates a distance between the viewer and the sad emotion. Therefore, you need to make an effort to actually see it, when happiness is "available" at a glance. The round shape of the image and mirror symbolises unity and constant circulation of life (repetition), and that good (joy) is above evil (sadness) - and yet it is a single organic whole.

Installation â„– 1: Happyisup/Sadisdown
UV Screen prints on board, mirror, chain & hook
2019




*through the binoculars
*frame located in the window across the street
An interactive installation with binoculars. With a help of binoculars you are kindly asked to look through the lower left window of the room, and through the window of the opposite building and read the framed word. In one way or another, each of us experiences something similar to this powerful, desperate word. Agony! meaning the state of deep mental pain and body's last breath before death. But despite this, I am trying to create a distance with this apathy. The distance is revealed by the binoculars lens, double window glasses, the street. The word itself is not real, too. It is a photograph of the word written, which created an extra distance, where 'Agony' was captured in the past. Here, the distance is also added by the camera lens. This word exists, but somewhere far and to see it, you need to look scrupulously. The action implies a transaction. I tried to show that the extreme states of the soul are distant and not so easily achieved ... they are there, behind the “window”, behind the “street”, yet they take place in our being.

Installation â„– 2: Agony
Binoculars, wooden frames, photograph
2019