THE DOUBLE
MEDIUM / Installation
DATE / 2022
The Double, 2022 (installation view)
Resin, Metal, MDF wood, Nylon & Performance
245 cm x 260cm x 240cm
The installation The Double confronts viewers with two tables. On one stands a life-sized sculpture made of resin, on the other, the artist herself performs a 4-hour-long piece. Enclosed in nylon plastic, the scene evokes a sense of isolation and emphasizes the longing for human connection.
The Double is part of the series of works Inbetween, presented in the exhibition of the same name in June 2022.
The Double, detail
The transition from life to death is an incomprehensible moment, a distance that the human mind is unable to grasp. The distance between existence and non-existence, this indefinable "inbetween", usually brief and unexpected, is a distance that man travels alone.
The space "inbetween" refers to the inevitable loneliness of life and death. Birth and death are experiences that are by definition experienced alone. But the utter loneliness of life is revealed when the real gap between people becomes apparent. This distance comes from perceiving things solely through one's subjective filter. It is never possible to grasp the opposite’s view completely, but only an image passed through one's eyes. In a way, one can only percieve a fragmentary image or a repetition of the self. We are alone because we are each trapped in their own being.
The triptych of installations was based on the uncanny situations documented by S.Freud (Das Unheimliche, 1919) and refer to: inanimate objects that are mistaken as animate (dolls, waxwork, automata, amputated limbs, etc.), alive beings that behave as inanimate objects (ecstasy, seizures, etc.), the double (twins, doppelgangers, etc.), the coincidences or repetitions and the confusion between reality and fantasy.
[INBETWEEN exhibition text]
The Double, installation outside view
The Double, installation inside top view