Bivouac II – Sacral Space

“To me, wilderness is a certain starting point, a base from which springs a rich spectrum of inspirational elements. For me as an artist, it is exactly those hard-to-reach and remote areas in nature that are fascinating sources of inspiration and spaces for creation. I am interested in cyclically repeating phenomena in nature. I am mesmerised by them, and at the same time, I search for apt ways of their artistic objectification. This is how my processual and organic sculptures are born, which are often co-created by wild animals. My work is mostly about some kind of participation on something self-sustaining, cyclical. After a long stay in a forest, or a suburb, or countryside, and after artistic activity in them, there comes physical exhaustion, which is, at the same time, a certain tool for me to calm down my thoughts and to contemplate.

In the work Bivouac II, I transformed a discovered forest shelter into a chapel – hermitage. I have always been fascinated by forest constructions – mostly by homeless shelters, bivouacs of poachers, scout shelters, wooden structures of woodmen, lumberjacks, forest workers, or bunkers built by children. If they are permanently inhabited then as shelters of people on the edge of the society, who have found themselves in this environment out of necessity and often involuntarily and who are primarily looking for a refuge and a certain kind of home. I am fascinated exactly by the contrast of the functionality of these shelters.” M. M.

Alexandra Tamásová ● Do divočiny