Messiah / mix media / from 2004 to 2007
Messiah is interdisciplinary visual project, and it deals on paradigmatic
history-religious discourse, which problematize mimetic ability in the frame
of contemporary new media. Messiah is multimedia project that contains
collections of works from 2006 to 2008. Main goal of this works is to re
problematize percepcion of religious „images“ - mental states in frame of
contemporary art. Messiah Hebrew “the Anointed One” who will bring the
kingdom of our Lord onto the Earth, the saviour, the king.Using this piece of
work (a series of photographs, video and multimedia projects) I am exploring
the possibilities of photography and new media as an art form. Can
photography or new media art have the same strength as the painting of
Renaissance in its expression and depiction of a certain spiritual condition?
How to depict the Messiah in the 21st century, in the light of everyday
slaughters, massacres, wars and violence? What is the sense of that depiction
at all? How to depict the Messiah in the 21st century in the light of a general
moral crisis and a crisis of all other values? Since photography and digital
manipulation is in a way “the painting of the 21st century” does it make any
sense to take a photograph of the Messiah? Speaking from an ethical point of
view, can we and should we even take a photograph of the Messiah? Will
photography of the future be given the same religious significance as the icons
and frescoes of the Renaissance have today? Does that make sense? Painting
is equal oil on canvas. Photograph equal painting. Transposing oil on canvas
via painting to photograph and its journey back. Since we are constantly
“besieged” by impacts of fashion industry, advertising, identity crises, various
types of slavery of the 21st century, stylists, metrosexuals, and exposed to
other forms of industrial, information and media torture – we subconsciously
take in bits of them in shape of small photo-fragments or visual fractions. Will
the Messiah of the 21st century be depicted with all those elements pertaining
to the period of time in which he was “painted” i. e. created or
photographed??? Does the Messiah of the 21st century have in himself the
complexity and multi-layered nature of his own spirit and of the Zeitgeist in
which he is generated?
