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The Collector’s Garden: an independent artistic research project, focusing on figurative sculpture as desirable and powerful object, explored through collecting as a method.

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The Collector’s Garden is an extensive exploration on a figurative three-dimensional object, combining studio work with other forms of research in this field. I have worked on the research project since 2017. The project focuses on the following themes: 1) Figurative sculpture as a desirable and powerful object, 2) The relationship(s) between a figurative object and the spectator/object and its creator, 3) The practice of collecting; collection as an environment and as a laboratory. The theoretical and practical research in this field is conducted through collecting as a method. All the stages of the project take place in the Collector’s Garden - an experimental environment of collecting and working. During the research process, the Collector’s Garden functions as a laboratory, where the theoretical considerations are put into practice and vice versa, and where various experiments with already existing and new material take place. Besides collecting physical objects through the process of possessing, making and experimenting, I also collect the history, ideas and knowledge that relate to objects, and I work with all this as one organic system. The Collector’s Garden is an independent artistic research project, and its purpose is to conduct the exploration in fine art through free and creative perspective. The project terminates in two exhibitions in different venues: in 2018 (Galleria Sculptor, 03.08. – 26.08) and in 2020.

The 'Collector’s Garden', is an extensive investigation of a figurative object.
In this project, I focus on a sculptural object that has certain power over the spectator - a figure which steps into a dialogue with its viewer, initiating voluntary and involuntary reactions. I am interested in the dynamics between the object and its creator, the statue’s relationship with the spectators, also its relation to surrounding space along with other objects. In this context, I explore the subjective human fantasies projected upon a lifeless object and different possible ways of experiencing its presence.
The ‘Collector’s Garden’ is an independent artistic research project, and its purpose is to conduct the exploration in fine art through broad and creative perspective. To conduct the project, I have used collecting as a method - besides collecting physical objects, I also collect experiences and processes, the history, ideas and knowledge that relate to objects, working with all this as one organic system.
The project duration is 2017 - 2021, and terminates in different exhibitions at various venues.

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