An art exhibition is traditionally seen as a place where people encounter art. But what happens to a work of art when it becomes part of everyday human life? When people talk, laugh, get bored, fall in love, take photographs, or simply lose themselves in their own thoughts in its presence?
In Rara Avis (a Latin phrase meaning literally a 'rare bird' - an unusual phenomenon, something unique), I observe these two worlds - the world of art and the world of everyday life - existing side by side and unexpectedly merging into one another.
Visitors' spontaneous gestures echo those of figures in paintings, sculptures seem to engage in conversations with living people, and works created centuries ago become unwitting participants in contemporary human stories. Sometimes these encounters give rise to humour, sometimes to tenderness, anxiety, or a sense of loneliness. And it is not always clear who is observing whom, or who is the subject of the observation.
For me, Rara Avis is an attempt to see art not as something frozen in time and detached from life, but as a natural extension of it. I am drawn to those fleeting moments when the boundary between an exhibition space and the world around it dissolves, and a chance coincidence becomes a new story. One that existed neither in the artist's original vision nor in the visitor's intentions.
