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BRAIN STUFF, Düsseldorf Quadriennale 2010, Beck & Eggeling. Curated by Mattijs Visser.
Dear Tijs,
When you asked me to write my thoughts about “light & darkness” I told you that this opposition preoccupied me a long time ago. The series of “Moon Flowers” is a reflection of our deepest inside. A mirror of the human being and its gorgeousness but also its disorder even if its appearance is tidy and yet so clear. We try to illustrate our best, but our inside is obviously very chaotic. It’s a risky situation that represents our nature. Everything is in our mind. The human brain becomes an arena, where every moment a fight takes place between the light and the dark. Our neurons are streets that drive to happiness as well to devastation. Science becomes the ticket for a journey to our inner world, our feelings and our complexity. My interpretation of “light & darkness” contains a profound and lyrical perceptive:
Light ➔ understanding ➔ right ➔ order ➔ proper ➔ good ➔ happiness
Darkness ➔ perplexity ➔ mystification ➔ confusion ➔ chaos ➔ bad ➔ sadness
Aspassio Haronitaki
P.S.: “Moon Flowers” is the fruit of long-term research collaboration with a team of doctors, radiologists and technicians from General Electric, working at the Georges Pompidou Hospital in Paris. Medical acquisitions become three-dimensional objects; their synthesis gives way to images that are real and yet unexplored. With fairly complex processes, I create worlds made mainly with flowers and an aquatic background referring to our universe.