BOUNDARIES

 According  to  the  neurotic  mechanism  of  introjections  we  incorporate  patterns,  habits,  ways  of  thinking  and  actions  which  are  not  ours.  From  our  early  years  we  internalize  feelings  and  attitudes  of  the  most  important  people  in  our  lives  (parents)  to  the  extent  that  our  behavior  can  remind  others  of  our  parents.  We  fully  adopt  their  attitudes  and  beliefs  which  we  reproduce,  as  we  want  to  be  accepted  by  them.

 According  to  Perls  (1969),  we  all  develop  by  becoming  able  to  distinguish  the  boundary  between  ‘me’  and  ‘the other’  .  And  we  develop  only  when  we  make  use  of  the environmental  effects  according  to  our  needs,  and  not  adapting  them  without  any  processing.  Otherwise,  we  just  minimize  the  differences  between  our  needs  and  on  what  we  have  introjected.  We  lose  the  boundaries  of  the  self,  depriving  ourselves  from  the  opportunity  to  freely  choose  what  we  want;  we  accept  what  happens  around  us  without  intervening  or  changing  it; we  find  ourselves  in  relationships  that  lead  nowhere.

 Installation

 Dimensions:  650  cm  x  270  cm

 Materials:  wire,  plastic,  fabric,  acrylic  paint,  glass  wool,  non  woven,  interfacing  fabric,  napkins,  linoleum,  engraving  ink,  lamination.

 Description

Children  made  of  wire  on  a  huge  napkin  and  a  stand  where  the  viewer  takes  their  own  napkin.  A  broken  chain  is  printed  on  it  referring  to  the  moment  when  he  broke  his  own  addiction.