HILDE G FLIKKE
My artistic concern is the flows of collapse and construction that run through the domains we like to think of as continuums; body, identity, memory, mythology.
This work is connected to the poetic universe of R.M.Rilke, in particular the Sonnets to Orpheus, built around the Orpheus legend, and written shortly after the death of a young dancer, Wera, whom he briefly knew. A double realm is evoked, the presence of death in life. Rilke describes Orpheus´crossing between two realities..
DO YOU RECOGNIZE ME, AIR?
Cyclus of 17 images. Drawing/acrylic/oil paints/collage/assemblage on wooden plates.
CUBES OF MOMENTS
A series of installations and relational art projects. Painted wooden cubes/videoprojections/sound work.
Inspired by the moment in Proust´In search of lost time,, where a stream of childhood memories is trigged by the smell of a cake, each moment is here represented by a cube. The philosopher H.Bergson claims that every particle of time, every moment, is separate, singular, and that our experience of continuity is constructed in our mind..
The installation was made for Fernanda Brancos performance focusing how it is to enter a new country, bringing nothing with you. Is it possible to start fresh? What makes an identity? What is waste and what is value? The performance and the installation is based on a text by C.Haase.
INSIDE GLASS
Installation/scenography. Architectural structure made of reinforcing steel mesh,bandage,tissues,tickets, children drawings, embroideries.
A stay in a suburb of Moskow resulted in this work, containing 399 small pieces that resembles domestic icons, and the same amount arranged in grids on a triptych of walls. The images are glimpses into apartments, shelters for existences with their borders and domains. The word Heartland, is derived from geopolitics, and designate the most important and central area of a country. The area that the country can´t lose without losing itself. In this work the term is applied at the level of an individual .
HEARTLANDS
installation/ drawing/acrylic/oil/collage/assemblage on wooden plates and bricks.