BED STAINS

PAINTING | MEDICAL PREPARATIONS, JAPANESE PAPER ON CANVAS | 2013-2014

Methodologically speaking, the essential function of non-structural stains is to bring out the personal features of the individual, along with all of its specific signatures. Bed Stains is a series of works based on the experience of compulsory, prolonged stay in bed, during which technology plays a significant role in one’s “survival”. Bed Stains are painted with paints made of medicines and chemical agents used in medical laboratories. The shape of the stains is inspired by human anatomy. The works make a reference to research relating to the projective test created in 1921 by the Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach. The purpose of the test is to diagnose structural and processual properties of one’s personality, determining patterns of individual and social functioning of a person. Assuming that the most natural proportion for the painting aimed at contemporary audience is the size of a screen, the format of the works has been given precisely this size. Titles of the paintings are a sequence of numbers that constitute the record of a pain scale, registered in a diary each day a painting was completed.

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