Self-realisation of a Contemporary Art Project

Title: Sel in Flux: Persona and the Veiled Self

I aim to create a body of works culminating with a solo exhibition composed of drawings, paintings, video arts, installations, sculptures and a publication. The core of this project emerges from a personal perspective, as a human-artist, exploring the field of psychoanalysis through visual art practice. Intentionally, the project investigates individual existence and societal phenomena throughout past and present cultural/political context. This exploration, as well as building up from Jungian concept of Persona, will serve as the source for artworks creation.

Self in Flux serves as provocative, reflective, confronting, critical, and revealing tool of individual’s inner world in relation to collectiveness and social expectations. In such artistic approach, my aim is to interrogate the concept of self-authenticity dissolving and recombining, influenced by ancient inheritance and under current socio-political pressure.

Methodology

I will use theoretical framework such as past history, generational trauma, alchemical processes, collective unconscious and current socio-political situations to inform the creation of artworks. Regarding the format of the exhibition, I aim to rent a private space in the city of Elbasan and turn it into a temporary gallery. The goal, here, is to create a theatrical-like space where artworks will appear metaphorically as actors themselves. Another goal is to advocate, through this temporary gallery, the necessity of an art gallery in the city of Elbasan – the city does not have one, even though is written in a paper, as the municipality pretends.

Objectives

The overarching goal is to position “Self in Flux” within the contexts of archetype, symbolism, and philosophy, and confronting it with four categories: individual (self), collective (society), relationship (behaviour), and history (memory).

Through an interdisciplinary body of works, the project aims to achieve:

2 large-scale installations made with carbon paper

2 video art pieces using video mapping and animation techniques.

3 conceptual sculptures

4 mixed-media paintings, drawings, etc.

1 documentation of the creative process

1 work catalogue

1 exhibition

5 open studios

1 open artist discourse

By embracing an interdisciplinary approach encompassing painting, sculpture, video, installation, documentation, and mixed media “Self in flux” seeks to address the inner dynamics of the individual while opening space for dialogue about the relationship between authenticity, society, and self-awareness.

I need a little help to make this project happen in a city that visual art is missing in general.