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     This outdoor textile installation in a space consisting of 3 pieces examines the formal appearance of the state of mind of depression. His textile materials display an organic cavalcade created with my colored "cyanotype", "eco print" and "lumen print" techniques, sometimes more concrete, sometimes mixed with blurred transitions, which are only reflections or shadows, dead copies of the real plant that once existed. Regarding the installation, the ornamental textiles carry a kind of "earth cover" symbolism, which has a symbolic action such as "I pull the earth on me", or a kind of grounding, death, as well as the attitude of depression or lethargy. These space installations display 3 different human body positions, which, if we were to subject them to psychological tests, we could find deep psychological meanings in the interpretation of certain poses. Whether in an artistic or philosophical sense, the knowledge of a person's soul shaped in space and their spatial placement creates a system of relationships with each other or in comparison to each other.

     We took samples of the masses from my body, so I became a physical part of the concept of depression and lethargy (which was an action and body art in itself). Among other things, I also experienced what it's like to be a material that is shaped, from which an art object or any object is created. During the sampling stage, at that moment, I was the creator, but I was not the one in the action, but in the experience. Paper wads soaked in liquid cold glue covered my body, it was dark, I could hardly breathe, I was surrounded by a continuous feeling, but also SILENCE and EMPTY. At the same time, I felt that I was inside a box or in my inner world, which was the comfort itself, but on the other hand, I was also outside, in a closed world that did not know that there was a world outside of it. This "being inside" presupposes a kind of fixed system, according to which we can never jump to certain layers that are outside our competence. However, if we look at these shaped spatial masses completely objectively from the outside, ignorantly, outside of knowing them, we would think that they hide something, but in fact they do not hide anything.
 

Contributor: Martin Helstáb