Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
Self-made traps
There are traps like cages that we create around us, where we are free to enter or leave, which we can bypass, or turn into our comfort zone. The aim of this project is to investigate both the personal space and space negotiations in the relations with others. I am interested in people’s need to create a comfort zone in various situations and settings where we need to interact and relate both to the space we are in and to other people.
A metaphor of capture and containment, the traps embody various scenarios. Therefore they are false traps, anyone is free to come in or out of them, space delimitation is fictitious, role-playings are interwoven, positions constantly revised, to the point where the captured is the capturer, the routes and directions of crossing the space are intuitively chosen.
GP SYSTEM
Two objects seemingly made in the mirror are connected by long cords, thus taking over each other's degrees of freedom and imposing the same movement to maintain balance. However, the system is not rigid. The human silhouette can be easily intuited, rescaled and deformed; it extends its extremities like tentacles in search of the other body. The Global Position System series describes the relationships and situations that generally occur between lovers. The works question isolation, the need for space, dependence, the identity that each of the partners gives up in order to be able to coexist with the other, the encounter, but also the endless search and the lack of contact. Following various scenarios, the works are a commentary on the androgynous myth and the romantic concept of the soul mate, which sometimes make us trapped (with a stranger) in a fixed structure, whose balance is precarious.
Courtesy Art Encounters Foundation
Photos Robert Floria
