NEO-SEMANTIC FALL

2017 / 2024

NEO-SEMANTIC FALL revisits, retraces, and returns to a series of sculptures made at the beginning of 2017. It rearticulates a language that evolved, expanded, and deepened over the seven-year cycle. It is almost an anniversary to celebrate inner submersions within the aspiration to resurface with new understandings and philosophies.  The re-evaluation of previous thoughts—seen as revelatory now—is to become aware of the meta-structure in which, even before we are introduced to it (birth), we are symbols and egos constructed by other people, first and foremost our parents. Our childhood bedroom is being prepared, and our name was chosen (even before conception, as an initial draft of our 'I'). Abstractions and symbols such as Malentendu form an initial problematic entanglement obscuring what is underneath the meta-structure. Under the meta-structure, there is the structure of Being — there is no truth — the truth is that there is only Being at its core level. And because of that, there is no truth but only the existing substance we are immersed in. Phenomenologically, we experience and turn that existence into truth — (meta-truth) — (mediation). At the same time, we are not alone in this experience as we are in a network of prepared meta-truths / symbols that are self-referential and that define my persona, ultimately altering my meta-truth and experience. It is clear that I obtain awareness of myself by acknowledging the difference between me and the other — psychoanalytically speaking, both the Lacanian mirror and Freudian genitalia — without the/an (an)other, I cannot know myself — the progenitor is the first other and therefore the first object of difference and influence to shape myself. Pure experience in itself to be co-shaped by me and the other. Freedom cannot exist with and along an 'I' — so it makes no sense to talk about freedom, especially in a meta-truth and meta-structure or in general in the reality we are living in. Freedom is non-existence, but because existence is a precondition and there is no such thing as non-existence — freedom means to be existence — pure existence.