Interpreter’s Booth

” (…) Our brain always tries to connect visuals we see with familiar patterns – something that we have already seen. It’s an old feature from the time when we all used to live in caves and it was necessary to connect a shape like the saber-toothed tiger with a deadly danger. Scientists would call it pareidolia yet for me it is the dumbest thing ever – the most powerful obstacle to appreciate fully the beauty of abstraction. On the other hand however pareidolia is the best helping hand when it comes to interpretation. Allowing us to use variety of lifetime experience in order to have a better understanding of what we see now.
More tips: I would like to call your attention on two things. First is the past – the one that is distant from us and the one that just has happened. In Anu’s work you can see how the past comes back in quasi architectural form – recalling walls that used to be here, playing with installation from the first chapter, nodding to a loop that looks like an inverted eight, involving shadows cast by the previous objects but not the actual ones. (…) ”  Piotr Sikora, curator