I'm mybelongings and if I lose them, then who I am? -Installation part of ProjectDEHUMANIZATION, Bulgarian Cultural Institute Bratislava - 01.02 - 20.02.2011
Conception:In contemporary technological world, conscious depersonalization,becoming people in easily manipulated objects. As a result, the modern man has lost any assessment of values,which leads to the subordination of human possessions. The people live in a societythat seeks only to profit and power. Even those who do notown significant property, however, possesssomething and care about him, seek topreserve it and what little they have want to multiply it. Subordinated to themaxim to have, its adherents are being circumvented with new things. By choosing of this philosophy of life, people started to live in a world whereeverything ismeasured by money and quantity. This is a new type of identification, which rely on what we have, because you know that you got it and it makes you feel safe. Cautious and possession-oriented people are relying on security and yet feel too insecure. They totally depend on what they have -money, prestige, image. In pursuit of material people don't know what they are, theylosing themselves. To have is a feeling associated with theacquisition of more and new belongings. But do they make us better, more humane, happier, more people?
Conception:In contemporary technological world, conscious depersonalization,becoming people in easily manipulated objects. As a result, the modern man has lost any assessment of values,which leads to the subordination of human possessions. The people live in a societythat seeks only to profit and power. Even those who do notown significant property, however, possesssomething and care about him, seek topreserve it and what little they have want to multiply it. Subordinated to themaxim to have, its adherents are being circumvented with new things. By choosing of this philosophy of life, people started to live in a world whereeverything ismeasured by money and quantity. This is a new type of identification, which rely on what we have, because you know that you got it and it makes you feel safe. Cautious and possession-oriented people are relying on security and yet feel too insecure. They totally depend on what they have -money, prestige, image. In pursuit of material people don't know what they are, theylosing themselves. To have is a feeling associated with theacquisition of more and new belongings. But do they make us better, more humane, happier, more people?
