Diamond Cuts: Sea of People

The installation includes a large-scale installation (cca 230 x 400cm) composed of simple skeletal architectural structures made of steel rods (coloured - powder coated), fabric (printed Habotai silk) and audio element (played on single channel speakers placed within the installation).
The work is considered as an island, both physically and in terms of time. The architectural structure serves as a backbone of the work, a shell, a vessel – but also as a drawing in space, a connector of thoughts. The fabric is light – sheer silk - so that the print and the colour is visible on both sides. Prints are details of previously made paintings developed through research during the preparation for this exhibition. They are of body parts, parts of objects, developed out of fragments of intertwined histories, frottage marks, lines. Audio element developed in collaboration with Alexis Taylor deals with the articulation of history or a particular narrative in which the voice (Alexis Taylor) is singing a text which loosely connects to one migrant story. I am interested in the idea that the elements of the work are not easily place-able in terms of media, colour (mimicry) or voice.