K12  2007

Picture gallery (2)

...... Kopljar’s installation ‘K12’ is directed towards suggesting and indicating uncertain acting of the space limited by the images. This acting of the space through the images is directed on the viewer as intensity, affect. The intensity of acting, in a certain way, puts us face to face with the cynically raised questions on life and death that can be accessed through our senses—actually, the questions on the factor of intensity the showing of life and death has on us who through our living body look at them and between them-images. With his rhetoric work, directed sensory intensities of sight and hearing, Kopljar sets up a ‘platform’ of thinking about life and death through the potentiality of art. It is as if with this work he is searching for the sensory body for thinking that is at the same time a form-of-life. “Thinking is a form-of-life, life inseparable from its form; and whenever the intimacy of this inseparable life comes forward—in theory just as in the materiality of corporeal processes and ways of life—there and only there we can talk about thinking. And this very thinking, this form-of-life that leaves the naked life to the “man” and the “citizen”, who from time to time take its place and represent its “rights”, must become the guiding thought and the unique center of the new policy.” In its rhetorical sophistication “K12” addresses the possibility to experience ‘life’ and ‘death’ through affects and, more importantly, affectations of the complex system of conceptions (moving and static audiovisual and visual images). In a cynical way, “K12” demands from us to confront the artist’s existential ambiguity. He presents himself as the symptom of human existence Here and Then. Kopljar’s installation thus functions as: - a social sculpture i.e. sculpture that established a social relationship between life and death at a place where we expect to see art - a dynamic and hybrid installation of screen images—videos and a photograph functioning as screens—between the man and death (the TRUTH) in a relation that for the viewer functions as an event - that what escapes our simbolizations in confrontations that are metaphysical potentiality in themselves, that what can be indexed, but not shown. “K12” is a provocative, rhetorically emphasized and visually affective work of art with a potential for thinking; it is guided by expectation… that at the same time by escaping promises the ‘truth of emptiness’ and with its presence confirms the executive potentiality of affects for the senses and the body.