Vertical Swamps Hamakom
The exhibition consists of a series of paper drawings, the well-known video film The Light Workers, which is based on 150 hand-drawn illustrations, and a collection of large three-dimensional sculptural drawings.
The exhibition presented unusual landscape drawings which function as maps of mental data outlines. Sasportas's mind 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.
In the course of The Light Workers film, the drawn trees and swamps become a reflection of themselves, slowly exposing the absence of the foundation which nurtures the forest. The forest body turns into a landscape line moving and imprisoned between one dimension and another. 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, various black geometric forms metaphorically represent an alienation from the surrounding domestic space or from the work itself. The integration of metaphysical components within the physical dimension, all within the same body of work, is a central aspect of Sasportas' artistic approach. For years, Sasportas' body of work has conveyed a sense of high tension and ongoing inner conflict.
The Vertical Swamp works shows particles of a foreign material which have penetrated it and been impressed in it, representing the penetration of subconscious or foreign information from an invisible sphere into the visible. The 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.
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
