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The fragmented body in its wounded form represents a challenge. The Chain (Retez), video
At the same time it distances itself from our need for harmony and
a sense of security. It provokes a society longing for perfectionism The oft-quoted sentence, that everything is related to everything,
and aesthetics, it holds attention with its suggestive vulnerability. It is ambivalent in content and its positive connotations can also be
permits the symbols of pain, suffering and death, while at the same assigned to many other useful disciplines such as science, art,
time connecting all that is organic and biological. The anatomical philosophy or inter-personal relationships. There are also, however,
and material structures blend into one, blood in this case acts like a many meanings in the negative sense of this phrase and I have
delightful, dynamic and healing relief. therefore tried to point out some of them in this video.
The Chain (Retez) deals with the peculiar practices of secret societies,
Whether we like it or not, each one of us must be subjected to some totalitarian conspiracies, religious or power groupings, and points
kind of moral judgement or conscience during our lifetime and it is out not only the aggressiveness of the “so-called” leaders, their
important to realise that a personal search for values should be taking superiority and manipulation, but bears witness also to the fear of
place on a permanent basis, otherwise we succumb to ambivalent those who are intrigued by narcisistically disturbed individuals. It
stagnation without any fundamental limits. The genetic structure reveals their servility, weakness and desire to allow themselves to be
of the human race is, in certain situations, adapted in an absurd controlled, testifies as to how far a person is prepared to go in pursuit
manner. In existential moments of our life, on the brink of the abyss, of his own humiliation or self-destruction and to where indeed do the
we often feel hope is lost and by way of contrast the most beautiful frontiers of fanatical tendencies lie?
visions awaken fears of the apocalypse or an undeserved paradise.
“That is also why, on the shore of ecologically endangered Venice, I In a deserted, bleak and gloomy factory hall an imaginary secret
have deliberately and systematically been searching for old wooden society sits around a wooden table. It is precisely at tables such as
debris, resembling organ structures, separating the pieces from each this that the fate of groups, individuals or nations is decided. Here
other like limbs, having sawn some of them off and tied them into one allegiance to a common cause is being sworn, terrorist activity
bundle with the halved body of Christ made of ivory“, says the artist. planned, and from here a “higher” goal is being looked up to, or even
This “bleeding” sculpture is a reminder of the fleetingness of all that the course of history determined. At tables which would be better
is living, and also of all suffering. We will all fuse with nature, the suited to being symbols of solidarity, calm and security. It is up to each
imaginary forms of the remnants of our bodies and the bodies of those one of us to see how capable are we of evaluating what manipulation
who suffered for us will be rounded out in regular waves of the sea‘s is admissible in the name of good and what is not. The possibilities are
tidal flow in an eternal universe. many, the interpretations numerous, the conclusions limited.

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