Igor Eskinja

Igor Eškinja | Resources and other short stories

The work of the Croatian artist Igor Eškinja navigates between installation, sculpture and photography. In his first solo-exhibition at Galerie Michaela Stock he wants to investigate both the destructive and the constructive nature of sun, light and time, and to look at how destruction can create something new. Without light we are unable to see colours and details, but with too much sunlight details become obscured and features flattened. Time is not a strictly literary category, yet short stories are unthinkable without time. Transmitted across generations, stories cannot help but remind us of how times have changed. In this way his works are charts of time process and transformation.

Eškinja's central idea of using natural sources is to create works that are fragile and have temporal dimension and in doing so, he wants us to rethink their importance in industrial societies. In his narratives, the artist uses the aesthetics of absence to represent the reality of non-communication and loneliness in a post-industrial society.
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