Iva Kontic

Green Shake, Cipralexs & PVC Windows is a series of autobiographical “micro-videos” made in a quasi-minimalist style. The video pieces present filmed performances and incorporate various forms of visual text. Consisting of a single continuous shot, they function as image deconstructions and reconstructions achieved through minimal physical interventions. Through the actions of creating and erasing visual text, these interventions generate both the temporal dimension and the narrative content of the videos. The series is based on the production of allusive content, expressed through a form of “textual image”—words in space—as if reading between the lines or looking beyond the frame.

Green Shake, Cipralexs & PVC Windows functions as a kind of intimate diary, touching upon several themes related to my recent personal experience. The work was inspired by a prolonged period spent within the enclosed space of my home environment and, in a broader sense, explores the transformation of personal perception and experience resulting from a sense of temporal constancy within four walls. It addresses the consequential emptying of content associated with everyday experience, which is shaped through our contact with “contextual reality” and its agents.

What remains of our portrait when spatial-temporal isolation eliminates the everyday external stimuli that populate the narrative of our living space and experience, and thereby “synthesise” our existential identity?

In this sense, the video pieces offer an artistic reflection on the process of alienation. They are small interpretations of the convergence of individual consciousness, in which the encounter with oneself reaches a climax through the expression and externalisation of basic desires, emotional needs, and psychological states.