JOHNNY NAONAR

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Up 2 space (2016) Fluorescent acrylic paint, golden foil and keyboard keys on a wood panel

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R E S U S C I T A T I O N , 2 0 1 8. Video performance Duration: 2 minutes and 31 seconds Music: David Szesztay – The Wind

Uncritical and unknowable integration of surrounding characteristics and their adoption is called introjection. Behaviour that result of such adoption is not our own. Our body usually reacts and resists introjects in different ways singnaling it is time for a change and the need for conscious decision-making. The result is authenticity. The video demonstrates introjection and its resolve on different levels. The breathing mask represents introjection, someone else breathing for us instead of us breathing on our own. The body resists and stops the oxygen flow (right arm), change and conscious decision-making occurs (left arm). Now we breathe on our own. Besides the general struggle with introjects, the video also talks about the aspiration of life of artistic expression (symbolics of the left hand whose movements are controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain which is responsible for visual processing, creativity and imagination).

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PARADISAEIDAE HATCHING, 2018. Plaster and artificial feathers

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DESCENT, 2018. aluminum and rock

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Up 2 space (2016) Fluorescent acrylic paint, golden foil and keyboard keys on a wood panel

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Lovers (2016) Plaster, wooden arrow, acrylic

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Cage with an opening (2018) Bird cage, thread, acrylic

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Birth of the Universe (Lacrimosa) (2016) Plaster, acrylic, styrofoam, rubber, golden foil

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“Don’t you lose it!” (2016) Plaster hand cast, thread, balloon letters, acrylic. Please don’t let go.

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Robert Mangold | Ring Image H

executed in 2009 acrylic and pencil on canvas 203.2 x 203.2 cm; 80 x 80 in

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“Don’t you lose it!” (2016) Plaster hand cast, thread, balloon letters, acrylic. Please don’t let go.

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what a big baby

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“Don’t you lose it!” (2016) Plaster hand cast, thread, balloon letters, acrylic. Please don’t let go.

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B O X OF T R I C K S ( 2017 )

Acrylic on canvas 100x120cm

Minimalistic shape of an anxiety medication packaging representing an omnipresent struggle among young people to answer existential questions society asks: Who am I? What do I want? Where am I going? , questions that provoke anxiety and to which no one has the answer.

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Title: Coming and or going ? (2018) Materials: Paper, cardboard and wire Sculpture consists of approx. 6000 paper puzzle pieces (origami fortune tellers) modelled out of 5x5 cm paper squares and glued onto a figure-shaped wire and cardboard base, suspended on two 50 cm steel metal cords 1.50 meters above ground. The figures are stripped of any kind of identity to build on the universal nature of the action of hugging. Does it comfort or does it hurt? The fortune tellers were glued one by one and the whole process took a year and three months to finish .