Yogurt Culture (2015 – ongoing)
The works in the Yogurt Culture series have been created with 3D modeling and simulations of physical forces and phenomena.
The title of the series was inspired by a joke among the inhabitants of a secluded place in Upstate New York, which says: "If you want culture, you have to buy yogurt". This saying, mentioned by Louise Pirotta, a US artist, became an occasion for a small challenge between colleagues living in different countries.
Subsequently as I became aware of its potential, the subject has been further developed.
The series refers to a wide spectrum of associations related to and evoked by the milk as a primary nutrient and in particular the milk modified by microorganisms. These are the processes of fermentation and transformation, maturation, storage, nutrition, satisfaction of thirst/hunger, feeding with new energy - archetypal states that are essential part of the dynamics of life and the human psyche respectively. In these works, the yogurt is placed in the abstract dimensions of sky or nothingness and is thus freed from any concreteness, which renders it as a cosmic or even divine substance and transfers it on a mythological level.
More about the series at its dedicated site: Yogurt Culture
* Louise Pirotta's original joke: "I live in an extremely rural secluded area of Upstate NY, pretty much cut off from the rest of the world. They say here if you want culture you have to buy yogurt."
The title of the series was inspired by a joke among the inhabitants of a secluded place in Upstate New York, which says: "If you want culture, you have to buy yogurt". This saying, mentioned by Louise Pirotta, a US artist, became an occasion for a small challenge between colleagues living in different countries.
Subsequently as I became aware of its potential, the subject has been further developed.
The series refers to a wide spectrum of associations related to and evoked by the milk as a primary nutrient and in particular the milk modified by microorganisms. These are the processes of fermentation and transformation, maturation, storage, nutrition, satisfaction of thirst/hunger, feeding with new energy - archetypal states that are essential part of the dynamics of life and the human psyche respectively. In these works, the yogurt is placed in the abstract dimensions of sky or nothingness and is thus freed from any concreteness, which renders it as a cosmic or even divine substance and transfers it on a mythological level.
More about the series at its dedicated site: Yogurt Culture
* Louise Pirotta's original joke: "I live in an extremely rural secluded area of Upstate NY, pretty much cut off from the rest of the world. They say here if you want culture you have to buy yogurt."
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