Video: "Vacuum" - depressive paintings by Melissa Cook
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is a lot of depression and melancholy, and I would like to see some glimmers of optimism in works of art at least and believe that everything is not as bad as it seems. But something the authors refuse to please us lately: in the company of the sad sculptures already known to us Derek Weisberg added no less depressing pictures by Melissa Cooke (Melissa Cooke).
Vacuum is a photorealistic portrait of people with plastic bags on their heads. According to the author, in this way she tried to explore society's fascination with themes of cruelty, death and madness. “In this episode, I created the image of a fictional suffering person,” says Melissa Cook. "As an artist, I have the ability to exaggerate the characteristics of insanity, instability, melancholy in order to question their glorification and validity."
Melissa Cook says that while working on a series of paintings, she herself rethought her attitude to the daily struggle with difficulties and problems. "Each of us at some point is faced with sad events, but what can be considered a true tragedy?" - the author asks. Cellophane bags in the artist's paintings symbolize protection from the outside world, the creation of a kind of comfortable microenvironment, where everyone else cannot get. But at the same time, they also personify a serious danger, since they deprive a person of air, and therefore, the opportunity to live.
In addition, the artist says that the need to depict transparent bags on people's heads has become a kind of challenge for her as a professional. And she coped with it excellently: some of the drawings may well be mistaken for photographs.
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