Laura Barić: P is insecure R

The work "P is an uncertain R", as the name suggests, represents a specific view of symbols within everyday life. Starting with the language itself and deconstructing its purpose into visual symbols and specifics within their representation, whether it is letters, plastic or the body, the work deals with the recontextualization of overlooked concepts and things whose purpose we no longer question and which we approach ... Read More

The work "P is an uncertain R", as the name alludes to, represents a specific view of symbols within everyday life. Starting with the language itself and deconstructing its purpose into visual symbols and specifics within their representation, whether they are letters, plastic or the body, the work deals with the recontextualization of overlooked concepts and things whose purpose we no longer even question and which we approach with a kind of automatism in perception and application. I try to explore and stage such phenomena in a broader sense, emphasizing their perhaps neglected or undiscovered potentials. Through an attempt to redefine the boundaries of objects, I try to examine and isolate the boundary space in which one finds its autonomy. I try to expand this fine line into a walkable space in which one has not yet passed into another, but is no longer what it was or should be. We find the membranes of objects and phenomena as a theme that extends throughout the exhibition. Whether it is the skin with the photographer wrapping the body by demarcating its boundaries or the sculptures of enlarged leeches that stick to the skin and thus deconstruct the boundary of the object, from the ubiquitous packaging to the shaggy wig, the space is filled with membranes that serve to structure content and concepts.
By creating a classification, we shape the skeleton of our routine. The products of routine are purposefully human, but separate from the human. Emphasized in their plasticity and artificiality, they seem to be reduced to pure form, and their function is only a concept from which it is contextually displaced. At the level of symbols, the entire associative series and our experience of these objects enter into what objects become within the work. All their denotative meanings and characteristics in the new context acquire new meanings and are transformed.
The space of the installation is there to keep them together so that the observer can bring them into relation and try to interpret them. The work encompasses the area of the marginal, the one at the intersection from one to the other, with the starting point that by changing the characteristic features of objects, we also change the structure of the understanding of the everyday. The presented objects encourage ambivalent relationships towards their compounds and relationships within the space they share. I connect objects associatively and in the field of their interrelation I try to emphasize the specificity of compounds that are able to produce physical sensations in the body. When creating the installation, I think about the relationships of parts and wholes in order to achieve harmony. I create a spatial collage that can be read as units within units, like an open system of babushkas where the boundaries are transparent.
The objects used serve as aids in the process of performing trivial actions, they seem to be just a means on the way of greater importance. By emphasizing their characteristics and forms, I try to unleash the creative potential of such objects, which is often overlooked since they are fixed in a certain context within which the way we treat them is defined. I deal with what adheres, what is tactile, what manages to actively imitate our senses in its staticness. What we sense is a movement that has taken place or is yet to be realized. What causes the urge to feel it because the purpose of that object in our memory is not activated without our participation or use that gives it life through context.

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BIOGRAPHY

Laura Barić was born in 1993. After graduating from the School of Applied Arts and Design, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in Animated Film and New Media, where she received her master's degree in 2016. In her work, she most often expresses herself through multimedia installations in space made of plastic objects, photographs, cardboard, text... Through them, she explores the concept of the everyday, most often displacing objects and situations from their established context. Through the medium of photography, she captures the small deviations of everyday life that fascinate her and thus creates a sketch for her work through which she tries to highlight the strangeness of the phenomena we take for granted. She is interested in the body and corporeality, both physical and virtual, and uses the Internet and its phenomena in her work. By exploring the potentials of spontaneity, the aesthetics of errors and the boundaries of objects, she tries to redefine the omnipresent.

Contact: laura_baric@hotmail.com