BLAZAR 2021
Artwin Gallery presents a new installation by Dima Rebus, Rainwater Harvester, as part of the blazar young contemporary art fair.
The project goes back to 2016, when the artist created the work 'The Uncertainty Principle', part of the 'Deprivation' series. Rebus painted his father's van, which is a trucking company. While travelling in this van, Dima's father collected the rainwater the artist needed for his work, filling jerry cans at numerous locations around the country - about 18 stops in total. Thus, each watercolour by Dima becomes an archive, a topographical map, preserving the memory of the routes.
The two large-scale awnings created for the project, one of which is presented on the walls of the stand, speak through the metaphor of a physical term about the personal experiences of the artist, about the dangers and difficulties of certain professions, about rethinking family ties. The character depicted on the entire surface of the tent illustrates the attempt to determine the position of the object in a superposition - neither here nor there, and simultaneously everywhere. The object becomes an introjection of the watching spectator, and it has nothing to do with his (the object's) gaze, thoughts or consciousness.
As part of a single installation, the new sculpture Rebus, a character who personifies the universe of Underground Aquarellka, whose narrative is told through watercolours, chemical solutions and rainwater. Escaping from his own universe and entering the three-dimensional dimension of ours, he embodies the extraordinary story of the "rainwater collector".
"In everyday life, we are surrounded by objects whose size we are able to relate to. For example, whether it is a huge skyscraper or a tiny grain of sand, a 92 cubic yard truck or a drop of water. As we all have lived life behind us, the experience we have gathered over the years prompts us that if everything we see behaves the same way, material objects should behave the same way in the entire universe. And when it turns out that somewhere something does not obey the usual rules and contradicts our intuitive notions about the world, we are strongly shocked. The uncertainty principle is one of the prime examples of this." - Dima Rebus.
