Henry Elibekyan
“Gesture” – a body movement that expresses inner feelings and deep structures; a set of physiological reactions that symbolically express “restrained conflict.”
“Gesture” is a unique “text”. “Gesture” is a sign, a symbol that unites the different layers of reality into a single whole, creating its own multilayered structure.
The nature and mechanisms of reflection are conditioned by the connection of several acts of activity that take place secretly in the deep layers and recesses of the human soul.
“Gesture” is a reflection of the soul.
The “gesture” is transmitted from the wrist to the “body”, following its behavior, self-awareness, the “body” reproduces the search, giving direction to the wrist, revealing its instinct in creation. It is the body that manifests itself in the explosion of unconscious materiality, unbridled imagination, in its endlessly extremely difficult self-world.
In the “Gesture” of the “Corporeal,” Freud finds the source of our problems, the unquenchable volcano of passions.
The above reveals the secret, irrational, transcendental mechanisms of activity, which are buried deep in its basements and secret chambers.
Stormed by the longing of passions and uncontrollable desires that reach libidinous impulses, the artist throws himself headlong into the search for “truth”, merging the diverse planes of reality into a single whole and creating a multilayered structure during his work.
In 2003, in Yerevan, I presented the project “Hamlet is not Hamlet or Revenge for the Father,” which I dedicated to Narek Avetisyan, Arman Grigoryan, Grigor Khachatryan, and all the young artists. The project consisted of the following parts: “making” pictures using gun shots and a hunting knife, making an “omelette” with zucchini and “metal bullets”, and a video project (Avetisyan, Grigoryan, Khachatryan). In the project, Hamlet (the prototype of the hero) was transformed into “Omelette” – an absurdity that expresses the mindlessness of our consciousness, our extreme unconsciousness and incomprehensible world, its fading in the face of the instinctiveness of the unknowable and the unspeakable.
Our essence, our brain, tries in vain to realize what is happening.
Satanism, immorality, “betrayal” – these and other “gestures” have become the “established order” in our society.
“Son” betrays father, “brother betrays brother,” “friend betrays friend”: these are real situations in our reality when human existence becomes unbearable and nihilism, skepticism, and the loss of the social ideal and meaning of life become the dominant form of existence.
Creativity is the reflection of the soul, that is, the “man”, the “soul”, the spiritual, the only true form of human activity, during which they reproduce the meaning of “things”.
…“Man” is, in a more sublime sense, “collective man” – the engine and forge of the human unconscious psychic world. This is his social mask, it is sometimes so heavy that the artist is forced to sacrifice his happiness and everything that makes up the meaning of life for ordinary people (K. Jung).
2003