25 Jahre Galerie U Hrobsky (ed. Feb. 2024)

MARTINA TSCHERNI
...in search of the mediterranean goddess_2023_mp4_4:30 min_Auflage: 3 Stk_€ 1.800,-
.....in search of the mediterranean goddess
My concept begins where life begins: namely water. Life emerges from the earth like a spring,
moves like a river, and stands like a lake. It is at the same time in eternal calm and endless
motion like the sea. Water is colourless but can take on all colours. It is considered the primordial
ground and holds an inexhaustible reservoir of cultural symbolic worlds with religious, mythological,
and philosophical interpretations.
Drawing is my passion. In different variations, I decompose the forms, transform them, by shifting
the dimension or using only details. This transformation arises spontaneously when I transfer
them to the paper, drawing ‘one thing after the other.’
Overlaying these drawings are real images taken while swimming in the sea between Malta and
Gozo. When I swim, I am in a bubble and the familiar sounds of breathing out into the water, the
bubbling, give me a feeling of security and safety. The steady movements of swimming create a
flow, a kind of trance that I fall into over the course of the long swim. With these levels of sensation
and representation, personal, imaginary images come to me during the long swim. I reject the
usual conventional structures and go on in search of the Mediterranean deity.
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