Author-Saša Petrović
Photographer-Dušan Novaković
Director of
photography-Đorđe Arambašić
Philosopher’s Haven (Artistss Statement)
„Object in
space Philosopher’s Haven is a
representation of personal,idealism, in which each individual builds of itself as residing on a sublime, isolated throne, on
which it mirrors itself wth an infinite sucession of images of oneself between
two mirrors put one against the other. A
haven exists as a place in which we takerefuge from the clashes with the real
world, but that kind of flight leads to new kind of conflicts, which are the
clashes with oneself and one’s inner demons. As this haven is in a form of a
chair, the free space is minimized, the
prospects for turning around and the
range of movements are limited, so thatt the innevitablity of this facing is higher. There are two
options, to get along with oneself or to descend. Philosopher’s Haven is a
multimedia installation, which includes a photo performans, while around the
throne are being attached the photos from the performans, size 8x8cm,standing
against the imiges of the participants that mirror themselves in the mirrors,
or to their images of themselves......etc....″
Haven that Brings no Consolation (Curator’s Commentary-Stevan
Vuković)
„The last
haven for the philosophers of the secular age is the situational apperception
in it’s double role : as an insight into one’s own visual perception
and an insight into one’s own speech acts in some specific situation.Searching
for unrefutable facts of existence, that could withstand any spectical
argument,and provide therewith a safe ground for the construction of experience
and thought, a philosopher sees her/himself as a subject of perception or a
subject of speech,findigd in that selfrelfection certitude ,and in that
certitude a safe haven. Paraphrasing
Lacan’s words from his first seminar, one could say that thia procces
always brings forward some relational site, appearing in one of two mirrors of
selfrelfection. Being a subject of perception, s/he views her/himself matched
with the Ideal Ego (Freudian Idealich), the image postulated by the desire into
the domain of the symbolic.The Real I, caught between the relational sights in
those two mirrors, standing one against the other, in the total symmetry,
viewes itself as fragmentary and non-whole, and not in accordance with that image.This haven
brings no consolation...″
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