COMPOSITION OF SILENCE
Sebastian Boulter (Finland)
COMPOSITION OF SILENCE
Painting series
Exhibition organized by Art & Cultural Studies laboratory
This body of work was part of a residency program with Art & Cultural Studies Laboratory (ACSL) Yerevan in March 2010.
Where: Art Mix Studio, 29 Saryan Str., Yerevan, Armenia
When: March 10 - 16
Opening: March 10, 18:00
Special thanks:
Samvel Baghdasaryan - the Dean of the Armenian Open University/Department of Fine Arts
Nvard Yerkanyan & Harutyun Alpetyan - AJZ Space
COMPOSITION OF SILENCE
By Sebastian Boulter
It was John Cage, a composer of silence (if I may say so), who inspired me in the first place in this painting process of Composition of silence. Obviously his main tool was a sound, but in the other hand he focused deeply into silence as well, and not only in his work, but also in a spiritual matter. I think that silence appears in its most relevant existence by searching the inner silence of our selves. Meditation must be the most preponderant existence of silence and our spiritual wellness is dependent of its condition.
Georges Bataille has written about silence that “Of all words, it is the most poetic and the most perverse: it is itself the proof of its own death”. As a consequence of this condition, silence is a chameleon-like concept, non-absolute and whose meaning varies radically depending its context.
The furthest extension of reluctance to communicate, as Susan Sontag has expressed silence, varies the phenomenon of silence radically. Reluctance to communicate can cause extremely painful and far-reaching impact. Extreme example of this point of view is the Armenian genocide and this unsolved fact is carrying its echoes still until our generation.
