PROJECTION: SEARCHING
Last March I did my first solo show in Kuwait city, "Projections: Searching"curated by Visual Therapy at Almakan gallery. Where I exhibited photography along with 7 new paintings and a short film.
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"Projections: Searching"
One of the challenges in anthropology is finding
the precise derivation of human culture and early activities, with the
invention and use of the mask representing one of the unanswered questions
today. The use of masks dates back several millennia. It is believed that the
first masks may have generally been used by primitive people to associate the
wearer with some kind of unimpeachable authority, such as "the gods"
or to otherwise lend credence to the person's claim on a given social role.
Humans worldwide have used masks since ancient
times for sacred rituals, as ornamentation, in performances and theatre. The
mask disguises the identity of its owner, and symbolizes the need to hide or
repress a person’s desires, fears or concerns.
Skount considers that everyone carries masks;
with it we conceal our identity and adopt a more socially acceptable image to
get by day to day. However, there are also moments in which we can reveal our
true nature, and take them off.
Now for the first time in Kuwait, Visual Therapy
presents “Projections: Searching,” an exhibition of new artworks by Skount, the
second one from his studio series inspired by the study of psychoanalysis
projection.
For one year Skount will focus his artworks on
the study of projection as a defense mechanism by which the subject attributes
to others their virtues or defects, including their shortcomings. This
phenomenon operates in situations of emotional conflict, internal or external
threat of origin, attributing to other people or objects feelings, thoughts and
desires that they never quite accepted in themselves because they generate
distress or anxiety.
As a result, the person can lose his real soul
by trying to draw a new identity while looking at others distorting or
redrawing their true identity in order to blend with mainstream society.
This is a clear symptom of paranoia as
deformation of a normal process that leads us to search the outside world the
cause of our affections.
Although the
term was used by Sigmund Freud from 1895 to refer specifically to a mechanism
observed in paranoid personalities or subjects directly paranoid, various
psychoanalytic schools have later generalized the concept to designate a
primary defense. As such, it is present in all psychic structures (in
psychosis, neurosis and perversion). Therefore, in attenuated form, also
operates in certain forms of thought completely normal everyday life.
For this time, Skount with “Projection:
Searching” presents, through his artworks, a metaphorical seeking for the inner
self of our existence; our roots, identity, and afterlight.
By removing their metaphorical mask and by
leaving behind hidden feelings, thoughts or desires, the person can try to look
for his inner self, adopting behaviors of other people close to him. This
creates an inner self as a projection of other people or a fusion of our inner
universe with each person that is part of our life.
This kind of seeking erases our identity as
individual people and generates a collective identity influenced by the people
or society that surrounds us, adopting a role of conduct, feelings, thoughts
and shared emotions that redraws our inner self.
Cosmic Kiss, acrylic and spray on canvas, 80x90 cm. 2015
Explorers, acrylic and collage on canvas, 50x60 cm. 2015
Family projections, acrylic and collage on canvas, 50x60 cm. 2015
Inner transmission, acrylic and spray on canvas 50x65 cm. 2015
Projections: Searching. Video lenght: 01 min 45 sec. (stereo) HD
Video editing: Elena de la Rubía
Camera: Laguna
Integration, acrylic and collage on illustration board 30x42 cm. 2015
Fusion, acrylic and collage on illustration board 30x42 cm. 2015
Below you will find some photos of the opening
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