Self Fulfilling Ego
JUPITER ARTLAND, EDINBURGH, 2017
Self Fulfilling Ego is a processual work commissioned by the Emerging Artist Programme at Jupiter Artland. It stemmed from the self-fulfilling prophecy, a sociopsychological phenomenon through which an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation. I applied the four phases of the prophecy (belief, thoughts, behaviour, result) to a processual action.
I asked to some amateur painters to portray the sculpture park’s owners while they were reading The White Bird (1985) by John Berger. In that case the drawings were the starting point of a series of sculptures representing body fragments, that were connected with a mist system triggered by the visitors using a motion sensor. In this way the work is an act of negotiation that elucidates the encounter with the other, and the relation that has been generated is an interstice more productive than the final result.
Self Fulfilling Ego
JUPITER ARTLAND, EDINBURGH, 2017
Self Fulfilling Ego is a processual work commissioned by the Emerging Artist Programme at Jupiter Artland. It stemmed from the self-fulfilling prophecy, a sociopsychological phenomenon through which an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation. I applied the four phases of the prophecy (belief, thoughts, behaviour, result) to a processual action.
I asked to some amateur painters to portray the sculpture park’s owners while they were reading The White Bird (1985) by John Berger. In that case the drawings were the starting point of a series of sculptures representing body fragments, that were connected with a mist system triggered by the visitors using a motion sensor. In this way the work is an act of negotiation that elucidates the encounter with the other, and the relation that has been generated is an interstice more productive than the final result.