Dominika Mandes

I absorb environments and note encounters. Through visual art and writing, I document sensations in relation to movement. As a methodology, I use the state of wandering understood both as a physical displacement and as a psychological experience. Curiosity for exploration and escapism lead me to various sites around the world, translating things provoked internally after the external happening. I take advantage of the restless nature of the mind, embracing its constant motion and accepting the confusion derived from navigating a condition of common reality.  Subjects within my works suggest the reign of environmental relations. They are shapeshifting rather than being bound to the individual and the defined position. Entities intermediate between parallel realms of earthly situations and emotional reflection. Existing beyond the time, they occupy landscapes to question our human position in the living world, revealing the illusion of our control.   In the heavenly blue-tiled bathroom, you roam through the remains of places once visited. The memory has altered the timeline by merging and intersecting different geographical locations. Among others, you’re positioned between the shifting sands, the coastline, the guesthouse. While creating pieces, I was reflecting on travelling as being simultaneously a visitor and an intruder. A similarity formed from facing my own fears encapsulated within the body provokes a question: does the fear come from the confrontation with the outside world or with your own self?