Orb

This series understands escapism as a human attempt to meet oneself — and the inevitable collision with the impossibility of such a meeting.

The first frame is pure cosmos: an inner or outer ocean of consciousness, a living, pulsating reflection in which there is yet no “I”. Gradually, a person appears within it. He looks, touches, embraces his own reflections. But the closer the interaction, the sharper the question: which of these reflections is real? Or perhaps he himself is merely a reflection of something he cannot bear within himself?

The works play with the boundaries of reality and illusion, the body and its multiple doubles. The reflective orb becomes almost a living entity — like the ocean of Solaris in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film, which materializes the deepest fears and desires. We never truly meet the Other. We meet only what we cannot accept in ourselves.

The final frame draws the viewer out of hypnotic escapism and back into an ordinary room. The matte blue surface on the wall is an open question. Was everything before it a reflection? Or is all our reality merely a reflection in someone else’s ocean? The traces on the wooden floor remind us: the viewer is not the first to stand here and wonder.

The series speaks of escapism not so much as flight, but as an attempt to create a poetic counter-reality — a space where one can briefly believe that we are capable of seeing ourselves truly. And about the realization that even in this, we remain alone.

In frame @polina_stukert_
Pure magic of mirror art @karenrumbosart
Many thanks for exhibition @rrartemex