This is the concept for my upcoming solo show awarded by the Museum for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. Funded by the Macedonia Arts Council, the show will be exhibited at the Museum for the Contemporary Arts in Skopje in 2016.
The exhibition will be looking at the chemical and philosophical aspects of carbon, the element whose chemical basis is responsible for all known life. Seen through the journeys of a carbon atom, the exhibition will contain a series of works that depict the atom’s cyclical journey through the biosphere. As the carbon travels through the various eco systems, it gets repeatedly recycled and thus forming an endless loop. The question that the show poses is whether the carbon atom retains the memory of all its former beings and if so, do we as humans retain the molecular memories of all the carbon’s previous states.
All the known elements are a result of stellar supernovas. After a supernova occurs, due to the powerful blast the newly formed elements are scattered in the universe in a form of stardust. The clustering of stardust creates planets such as ours, as well as all the life on it. Having in mind that we are all made of ancient building blocks, as we breathe, can we try and remember our molecular past?
I would like to use the loop as a metaphor for the carbon cycles and stimulate the audiences to think about the life cycles. Also I would like to make people think about the fact that we are made of pieces that used to be rocks, plants and air and stars.
Through the use of moving image, interactive installations and sound objects, I will create works that look at the carbon cycle and echo its previous journeys.