21.01.2011
Designer Vladimir Böhm joined the gallery.
"My work may sometimes seem ‘unfinished’ in the conventional sense, but this ‘unfinishedness’ is carefully chosen. It is often hardest to know where to stop. My intention is to ‘arrest’ the process of making in a piece. This reflects my perception of creativity as the human way of negotiating the constantly evolving world in which we live. In her book on the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Claire Colebrook wrote ‘Thinking is not something ‘we’ do; thinking happens to us, from without. There is a necessity to thinking, for the event of thought lies beyond the autonomy of choice… At the same time, this necessity is also the affirmation of chance and freedom; we are not constrained by an order or pregiven end.’*.
Intention is important to my understanding of the creative process - but not will. Willing involves manipulating, and places us in an impossible position of responsibility.
*Claire Colebrook, Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 2002), 38
Vladimir Böhm