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Animation box, 2017.

Naive Box, 2017.
Interactve installaton, VR video, 2d animaton

The “Naive Box” is a multmedia object that aims to revive the digital space and drag in observers within it. The work is literally revived by physical contact with the observer - taking the box into the hands and moving in space. Thus, the virtual space inside the box moves in real tme by erasing the difference between virtual reality and reality. The work confronts plain traditional technique of drawing and tehnology. The scenes that are shown in animation are sketchy and naive to a certain extent, they carry a wity narratve that hides a tragedy. Using the concept of the abjection as mentoned in Julia Kristeva’s “Power of Horrors” study, with the narratve and the content of individual works, I had an intenton to remove the tendency  of the observer for a search for the ratonal, leaving no space for wider contextualizaton of the presented scene. Perhaps they resemble surrealism, yet they can not be classifed in a certain context of fantasy, surrealism or Lacanian quotes. Their detestable and disturbing can not be legalized in this way. This absence of context and indeterminacy is my way and an atempt to place my works out of space socially acceptable, to create a crack that breaks in the same way that the box shakes the dichotomy that stands between the two spaces. Monitor of a box is broken, thus this destructive moment suggests both split between spaces in a physical way and enternal tendency for chasing other side of consciousness.
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Animation box, 2017.
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Animation box, 2017.

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