Louisa Potapchik

London

“Long Term Memory”

Video Art

LONG-TERM MEMORY is a visual-acoustic experience depicting a process that we are often unable to perceive – our memory. The installation transports viewers into a micro-scale view of natural processes that form information storage within us.

The glass structure is 3 cubes, placed within each other, as a metaphor for physical, etheric and astral bodies situated within corresponding Earth spheres. There is a constant circulation of matter between them to maintain life. Any changes, such as new ions that attach to a DNA molecule on the physical level, are reflected on other levels.

Bio:

After obtaining qualifications in computing and geology, visual communication and moving image, I became very open to combining technology with my understanding of nature. After having travelled, and worked for and with many businesses and nature-related charities, doing GIS work and computer-related jobs, I realised that the world needs more immersive art that expresses spiritual connections of mind to nature.

Artist Statement:

I am a London based video artist and I want to take the audience on a graceful journey through inner connections between mind and nature. I believe that the boundary between art, nature, and spirituality is very subtle.  In my work, I evoque the timeless natural phenomena, and the feelings and questions that one goes through during those impalpable moments when we feel a part of the natural wisdom and balance. I am future-oriented, so is my art and philosophy.

I admire new technology for spreading our creative messages in futuristic ways, yet my capacity to question nature doesn't have boundaries: what is silence? where is my memory stored? why our words influence water? 

Welcome to the timeless and impalpable.