SELF-KNOWLEDGE, 2016

  • Zharko Basheski
My works Self-knowledge and Facing per se are not part of the aforementioned cycles; nevertheless, they follow the line of the visual, and also conceptual rhetoric that I use.
"Self-knowledge" represents a double figure glued at the hips, like Siamese twins - one asleep, the other with open eyes; as such, they are reflection or gleam of the very recognition, knowledge, and awakening of man in this world. The two sculptures making up the installation "Facing" offer rendition of two figures in spasm, situated in the fetal position, and with their arms in self-defense; they only represent the realistic picture of the horror of this world, conveying man’s need to defend against natural disasters and against man-made disasters, and even the need to defend from himself.