"Three potatoes, a crack and a shell". From the "Insight" series

Insight is an insight that occurs in the process of psychoanalytic therapy. Having experienced this phenomenon, I created a series of works (graphics,
paintings, objects).

A year later, in my workshop, I assembled them into an installation, arranging all the objects according to the principle of multiple semantic and visual reflections. At this two-day exhibition, all the details were interconnected, and the viewer could connect them with a mental thread. The life of things could be traced in several extended states, for example, potatoes growing in pots were an object for still lifes hanging on the wall.

An important part of the exhibition was my author's text. In it, I described in detail the day when the insight happened. The text has been supplemented with audio in which I read a diary entry made in the wake of the event. The voice sounded in a small, dark room, existed separately from the objects of the installation and was a direct testimony, placed outside the brackets: it transported the viewer into the atmosphere of what had happened.

By watching, reading and listening, the viewer understood how these works appeared, that they were made and presented here in the workshop, inseparably from the context. The existence of this installation is possible only inside the studio where everything happened, and the space itself is an eyewitness and part of the work.

"Insight" is a story about a tectonic shift in consciousness, about powerful internal changes that are hidden from view, but nevertheless the most important.

Text: Asya Marakulina