Mariusz Sołtysik
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
The feeling of being separated, listening to sounds from inside a changing room with a full awareness of intimacy, safety and the function of the place. At the same time, there is an aspect of focusing on oneself and my own body. It brings to mind the life choices we are faced with: to be inside without engaging into social sphere. There are different scales of activism, or artistic expression. I am not very interested in decorations, I am more interested in manifestations stemming from experience and context of the place, where the art utterance took place. Apparent simplicity of a person’ s figure in the changing room connects those spheres, and it is its advantage. Perhaps not directly, but the viewers must discover it by themselves. Here the documentation may not be sufficient. Iceland is a country without trees, it is a country of hard conditions and wonderful people. By implementing the experience, I connect it with the historical context and my own memory.
Elements from environment and reminders to the notion of landscape are particularly recurrent in your imagery and working on both the subconscious level and on the conscious sphere, it never plays the role of a mere background. Do you see a definite relationship between environment and your work?
This is the essence of site-specific works, or installations, but also collage works. I do not create in a void. I have a particular pleasure, and I pay a particular attention