Can you swim?

Can you swim?

Can you swim?...
like shadows on the wall.

They swim. What about you-can you swim?

Can you swim in a bathtub?
Can you swim out of your skin?
Can you swim in a gaze?
Can you swim from home?
Can you swim in ice?
Can you swim under saliva?
Can you swim under a microscope?
Can you swim to silence?
Can you swim from the bottom up?

Can you swim to the middle?
Can you swim in injustice?
Can you swim on a plate beside a fish?
Can you swim in a void?
Can you swim out from the void?

Can you swim?

To swim: to move in the water or on the water with the help of limbs or fins; to move with a gliding motion; skillful gliding across the wall.

Can you swim?

As a shadow i jump onto all walls-onto lonely, rough, hungry, full ones. My shadow wants to swim; and knows how to swim, not only in the idea, but also in flesh. It is like a fish that both follows and leads my body. Swimming amongst my shadows i swim from one room to another along the walls, where one room does not only reflect but also resonate the other, the echo remaining on the walls even after the meat of my body has already moved along, revealing the state in which the body is becoming the shadow, and the shadow the body. How much veiling is necessary for the body to be seen as evasive and how much unveiling is necessary for the shadow to reveal the fleshiness within its constitution?
In my shadow, i swim around; extending onto the walls, curving around the corners, contracting upon the ceiling, trying to decide whether to be a part of my body or apart from it.

Through the exploration of the female body and glance i want to disclose the intermediate state when a body which is profane, thanks to the presence of its shadows which are sacred, takes on their distinctive trait - indistinctness, creating in this way the potential to be perceived as sacred. i try to see how much blurriness and how much permanence it takes for something that is profane in itself to become also sacred, and how much carnality is needed to make something sacred lose its abstract character without succumbing to profanity. i want to find out how much veiling is necessary for the body to be seen as evasive and how much unveiling is necessary for the shadows to reveal the fleshiness within its constitution.
(from my statement for the exhibition "Can you swim?" at the City Art Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct. 2008)