E V A P E T R I Č
CRYSTAL - GLASS
EVA PETRIČ
FOR J. & L. LOBMEYR
From Photography to Lace to Glass - E@motion TELEporter / TELEshadowPORTATION
Eva Petrič translates “shadow emotions” from photography into Idrija lace and finally into engraved glass lanterns made by J. & L. Lobmeyr. As light passes through lace, it casts moving filigrees that reveal life’s zigzags while quietly weaving us into shared, unconscious patterns – threads caught in loops of feeling across generations.
Rooted in her project Gr@y Matter – language of shadows, Petrič’s Periodic Table of
Shadowed Emotions replaces chemical elements with images of her own shadows. Like emotions, shadows are universal yet elusive: appearing, disappearing, and often deceiving us. In crystal, these shadow-lace motifs become a kind of time machine, holding past and present at once, enabling us to be at the same time in the past and in the present. Their beams honor the heritage of handmade lace, while engraved “lace shadows” and sewn assemblages of recycled lace situate the work in a contemporary, global context.
J. & L. Lobmeyr “lace shadow” lanterns, whether being of modern cylinder form or of ancient baroque shapes, act as teleporters, teleporting the emotions that shadows, created by the lace blocking beams of light, instantaneously catalyze in us - teleporting the once upon a times into the forever afters… showing us that at the same time we can be both “here and there”…
E@motion TELEporter exists as:
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a unique Entanglement Particles lantern featuring handmade Earthling-shaped lace;
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two series:
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Time Machine 1, 2, 3, 4… – sewn assemblages of handmade lace by anonymous women from around the world, collected and composed by the artist into a collective narrative;
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TELEporter 1, 2, 3… – shadow emotions translated into lace patterns and hand-engraved by the artist into the lantern glass.
Both series are available in two Lobmeyr forms:
a) an antique Baroque lantern (c. 1750, 4170-II-3), and
b) a contemporary cylinder (2003, 42439-3 “Cylinder”).
EARTHLING CONDUITS
Eva Petrič’s series Earth, Earthlings and Webs, currently on view at Newel (New York), are a series of plexiglas figures with Idrija lace etchings after the artist's human shadow. These series serve as a catalyst and reminder of one's connection to our surroundings and our human interconnectivity.
These artworks are the result of both an artistic exploration of artistic mediums and originates from Petrič work with astronauts for the ESTEC ESA Moon mission;
Eva Petrič: “Want it or not, being aware of it or not, everything in this universe is interconnected-meaning, that the extreme isolation I felt during the Moon Mission Simulation, does not exist in this universe.”
TREE OF LIFE
In my work I often deal with emotions – with love. For this matter I was especially interested in being confronted with the heart – with the real, physical one - pulsating with life,
not simply in the metaphor of words.
I received this confrontation 100% when witnessing the real anatomical heart and its owner's bones side by side, in opposition, in a dialogue. Dr. Robert Favaloro enabled me to observe open heart surgery on the heart of one of his patient's at the Favaloro Foundation Clinique in Buenos Aires, when I visited Argentina with my exhibition Angel, dissected some years ago. He so to say, "transplanted"" - immersed me into the center of the heart, the home of emotions.
I was interested to see the seat of emotions, as we like to think of the heart. After seeing the bare human heart at the open heart surgery, I am now no longer sure whether the heart is the seat of emotions. Rather, I now realize that it is the emotions which fuel the heart. My image “fiesta”, stemming from the “happy” emotions section in my periodic table of shadowed emotions, reminds me of the human heart,
pulsating upwards, like a battery that wants to keep going and going and going… It represents to me to the human heart and all the various shadowed emotions entangled in numerous twists and turns, in the intricate pathways of the vibrating heart.
RE FLECT
Re flect – zig tick tack, zig zag - shadow emotions, translated into curves and loops of Idrija lace, caught into the Rogaška crystal… showing not only zig zags twists and turns of life but interweaving, connecting us, similarly as Idrija lace does, into unconscious patterns. We are like threads, caught into loops of emotions in patterns of past and future generations.
Re flect series stems from my project Gr@y Matter – language of shadows, exploring the communication abilities of shadows. In the periodic table, borrowed from the natural sciences, I replaced chemical elements with emotions visualized with images of shadows. Emotions are like shadows: we all have them, whether we acknowledge them or not. In fact, we belong to a community of shadows, which accompany and accept each and every one of us – although we often do not notice them. Likewise shadows also emotions are ungraspable; appearing and disappearing they often trick us. They are like the twists and turns in my shadow image, translated into Idrija lace, passing from black to white and negative to positive. Caught into crystal, they reflect the tradition and heritage of Idrija lace., Shadows from the periodic table of shadowed emotions place them into the contemporary globalized world.
Pieces of the Rogaška crystal at this site contain the hand engraved image from the Gr@y Matter series, translated into handmade Idrija lace.