Shellters

2023 - 2024

concrete, fiberglass (each approx. 60x30x30 cm)

The human body hides in and merges with the overgrown snail shells. The main topic of this project are human fears and anxieties. Based on my own experinece supplemented by my research from the psychological publications I dive with my work to the dark corners of human soul. 

Why am I occupied by psychological disorders? First of all, I am interested in what goes on inside a person, in his mind. I'm fascinated by the inner personal world of people and how they think. I am interested in what makes people aggressive and intolerant, as well as resigned and detached. In this way, I look for ways to overcome learned patterns of behaviour and to cope with anxiety.

 I explore people's reactions in crises situations such as feeling of threat, fear, withdrawing into oneself. Dealing with anxiety and depresion, is often connected with unable to maintain social contacts. The safe space, build for a selfpretection, necessery for healing is the prison in the same way. It can makes people feel even more elone, cuted from the world outside and even more diving in the pain. From my point of view it also represents the possibility of personal growth through overcoming challenges as well as overcoming oneself.