During the seven weeks of ‘Entangled’ we’ll focus on individual artists here on our blog. ‘some things looming’ is pleased to introduce: Marina Btesh
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How do I introduce myelf ? I do not belong to any classic category, I am neither a painter nor a sculptress. Experimenting, searching, using, transforming, recycling, are actions that represent me. So, in one first definition I would say : I investigate substance and work in space. What happens if….? This is a question I always ask myelf and it is the starting point to work and experience with materials. Through time, I have discovered two powerful tools: heat and chance. Heat because its action confronts me with the irreversibility of these transformation proceses. Chance because I work without previous sketches or plans, accepting the unexpected I look for the potential of the substance that you can’t see at first sight, forcing it to go beyond the accepted limits. I work as from the search and the meeting point of new methodologies. I experience in the frontiers of where something is and where something might be. I am interested in what is unique; however, I manufacture or produce, repeating the process once and again and going far away from the same result. I find pleasure in experiencing, in following one and a thousand times the same method , and the difficulty of the organization of these parts. Parts, which are works themselves, turn into a work of larger scale. In another approach to what I am interested as an artist, I would say, that in the natural world I am attracted to : plants, and stones, and industrial processes, everything that for some reason is thrown away In my “atelier” everything is posible. If I define myself or define my work regarding its space, it is there where everything takes place.
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