Rifts of Absence
The exhibition presents unusual landscape drawings which function as maps of mental data outlines. Sasportas‘s mental landscapes deal with the meeting point between the personal space and the collective expanse. At this junction, the personal life data becomes an anonymous fragment of information which functions as part of a wider and more complex sphere. The body of work itself deals with the encounter and the passage from the physical, structural and material to the weightless and ethereal metaphysical dimension. Sasportas‘s preoccupation with the constant movement between different time zones and the penetration of one dimension into another belong to the inner core of her work.
These movements expose subconscious materials, which have not undergone full integration. They often serve as interfaces or meeting points between the invisible but perceived subconscious space and the physical sphere, which in turn echoes their effect. In the new works, different black geometrical parts represent metaphorically an alienation from the rest of the domestic life space or from the rest of the work itself.
The idea of metaphysical components integrated in the physical dimension within the same body of work is an essential part in Sasportas‘s artistic perspective. Sasportas‘s body of work has been representing high tension and constant inner conflict for years. Like many of Sasportas‘s sculptural installations in recent years, the current exhibition presents the spectator with a species of a reflexive and conceptual mirror field, which exposes the personal consciousness structure and its placement in the collective sphere.
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
