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  Phoenix | 2013

The sculpture of the Phoenix is a challenge and that’s one of the reasons why I created it as a one-view object. It is a self-supporting, appealing “poster” placed in front of the wall. The phoenix myth has appeared in different cultures across the world since antiquity. Every culture treats it differently, but it retains the same character of perishing and resurrection through fire. The rhythm of creation and destruction, decay and arising has governed human communities from their early days. Reasons and consequences of the demise of a civilization or culture are often based on similar impulses and mistakes which people experienced in the past. The current state of society is formed partially within each of us. Society then translates all these individual situations into one unit and is affected by all of them.The individual fragments born on the wings of a nascent (white) phoenix represent the remnants of parts of the natural ecosystem. Certain natural materials used in the smaller objects that are part of the statue are fragments which I used in my performances of the same year. The central statue of Jesus Christ is an allusion to a Greenpeace event, organized in 2006 in Rio de Janeiro. A charred piece of wood under the Christ statue is the link to the Amazon rainforest - the basis for diversity and climatic conditions on the planet. On its wings, the phoenix carries pieces of destruction and pieces of renewal. The figure of phoenix is also duplicated: the dark figure dies as a threat, while the bright phoenix rises and carries on its wings the remnants of destruction (like the memory of previous mistakes) and also newly resurgent shoots (for new opportunities). The two figures structurally support one another.