What
is reality? Is it something that is set, continuous, regardless
whether there is anyone to experience it, or does it only exist in
our minds, is it something we create? Is our perception of the world
correct to what is really happening?
The
touchstone of this body of work is the intertwining of personal
memories with documented history.
The
Projections consist of three wall projected images, old photographs
from childhood over which I painted my own memory of the events, how
I felt at that time.
The
centrepiece image is created out of two merging landscapes, one
Australian (country Victoria), the other European (Brno, Czech
Republic, the town of my birth), both deeply familiar to me, loaded
with significance.
I
pose a question, is it the camera recording events faithfully as it
happened or is the only true reality the one we experience though our
eyes and in our hearts.
(excerpt
from proposal, Mariana Jandova, 2010)