Farid Rasulov
29 Feb - 27 Mar 2012
FARID RASULOV
Seafood
29 February - 27 March, 2012
Farid Rasulov's project features manta rays that appear as if trapped by those most clever and cunning beasts - Homo Sapiens. All this luxury of space is no more than the global prison called "advanced human civilization." These lovely figures from the underwater kingdom are not just symbols of the animal world. Rather they are a symbolic reflection the beginning of Living Nature, or what we call the Soul.
The manta rays are a metaphor for the yearning of the soul that is trapped by a rational and articulated system in the grip of Glamor that provides everything except one thing - a living, spiritual vibration, and a flight of the free spirit. The soul yearns to break free, but we are shackled by the inexorable logic of the laws of technological excellence and the irrepressible improvement of the "quality of life". The vector of civilization's development seems aimed at sterilizing the final victory of life and eliminating the movements of the living soul.
Farid Rasulov's project calls our attention to this tendency in our world, and leaves the viewer to ponder how to grapple with it.
John Varoli
Seafood
29 February - 27 March, 2012
Farid Rasulov's project features manta rays that appear as if trapped by those most clever and cunning beasts - Homo Sapiens. All this luxury of space is no more than the global prison called "advanced human civilization." These lovely figures from the underwater kingdom are not just symbols of the animal world. Rather they are a symbolic reflection the beginning of Living Nature, or what we call the Soul.
The manta rays are a metaphor for the yearning of the soul that is trapped by a rational and articulated system in the grip of Glamor that provides everything except one thing - a living, spiritual vibration, and a flight of the free spirit. The soul yearns to break free, but we are shackled by the inexorable logic of the laws of technological excellence and the irrepressible improvement of the "quality of life". The vector of civilization's development seems aimed at sterilizing the final victory of life and eliminating the movements of the living soul.
Farid Rasulov's project calls our attention to this tendency in our world, and leaves the viewer to ponder how to grapple with it.
John Varoli