Lara Ögel

TURKEY

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LIBERI,Volumne V,2021.Cold gilded press on linen

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LIBER I invites the viewer to speculate on a psychological and mythological creation tale by deciphering the occult symbols laid across three book covers with missing interiors. The installation titled In the Hour of Terra is composed of clay tablets that safekeep dreams of the earth. Each piece contains natural symbols of transformation found in various cosmologies. Through the act of witnessing, acknowledging and internalising such images of metamorphosis, the work invites meditation on creative death, where an end of something could bring forth another. Half-buried in dust on the floor are glittering pieces of bronze imitating classical asaroton (Greek for unswept floor) mosaics depicting traces of banquets, conceived with the intention of rekindling the plenitude of the hearth. In both these works, the artist tries to draw attention to the constant cycle of creation and destruction, where pieces fired from the earth are ceremonially returned to it, paving the ground for more imaginative symbols to come.