TERROR AREAS 2005
















TERROR AREAS

The work of Alexandra Marati constructs and deconstructs the space of a two-dimensional surface in such a way that the imagined extension of space, via its compositional and analytics planes, create a type of theatre set where the “happening” is the artistic act itself, an act which appears to levitate as unfinished yet perfect. In performing this act herself emphasizes her interest in structuring space by using shabby materials from the world of painting and elsewhere while at the same time this space encloses all imagined, real and unreal spaces so as to give the impression of  liveable spaces such as deconstructed rooms, areas, streets, via the gesture encapsulated in their construction. Lines and shapes become her building blocks, the material which comes from emotional states and experiences. We could say that in this way Alexandra Marati has prevented the image from becoming immobilized since it is developing, evolving in experiential and life terms.

The dialectic created by this relationship provoked by the space takes on a constructional and structural intensity which insinuates its very own kind of structural – metaphorical deconstruction since the artist constructs, in other words arranges objects, colours, drawings and various materials so that via this composition she creates the impression of unfathomable destruction.

Spectacular oppositions conceal the unity of poverty. If different forms of the same alienation struggle against each other in the guise of irreconcilable antagonisms, this is because they are all based on real contradictions that are repressed. The spectacle exists in a concentrated form and a diffuse form, depending on the requirements of the particular stage of poverty it denies and supports. In both cases it is nothing more than an image of happy harmony surrounded by desolation and horror, at the calm centre of misery. The society that bears the spectacle does not dominate underdeveloped regions solely by its economic hegemony. It also dominates them as the society of the spectacle. Even where the material base is still absent, modern society has already used the spectacle to invade the social surface of every continent. – Guy Debord, la société du spectacle.

In this specific work of Alexandra Marati is now experimenting with materials but above all with space and its objective dimension. From dream space, which we saw in her previous works and the archetypes they encapsulated, she has moved to the space of real and realistic culture. We can go so far to say that the artist handles her new materials in a particularly interesting manner while at the same time her colour arrangements and tonality draw on her own personal dialectic equilibrium.

Dorothea Konteletzidou
Art Historian
December 2004

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