Technical Specifications:
Snake dimensions: 3×3 m, height 1.5 m, weight 40kg all of tougher, oiled steel, profile 4×4.
Concrete blocks and bricks symbolize residential construction.
The three snake figures represent the most primitive and primal force of unconsciousness. As aptly noted by Juan Eduardo Cirlot, due to its origin, physiognomy, and habits, the snake may correspond to a greater diversity of symbolic concepts directly associated with it. For example, its undulating silhouette symbolizes the force of life, while its intricate movement has become a symbol of unsolved mysteries. The sudden and inexplicable appearances symbolize the untamed forces of unconsciousness that can seize control of human beings. The snake has always been an object of cult and fear, symbolizing invincible and eternal strength and the mysteries of life.
The sculpture was created in 2024 and was exhibited in industrial spaces that already had a context of passing, the blending of the new and the old, and the representation of the snake as a guardian of secrets, hidden knowledge, and the proper order of things. This context can be reinstated in gallery spaces by adding bricks and concrete elements to the installation. Embedding the sculpture with symbols of the decay of the old world and ideas. The sculpture is also ready for outdoor exhibition.
As an artist of Polish origin, I understand well the theme of war and the gathering clouds over Europe, on the brink of a serious storm, civilization releases AI, our minds increasingly land in “second life”, mass social experiments are conducted through mobile and computer applications, before our eyes, there is a great race to gather knowledge, embellished by the echo of misinformation, we stand on the eve of change, after which the world may be unrecognizable to us. The snake appears here as a guardian of secrets, constantly present in human culture and every civilization, a creature that has survived many ends and many beginnings, a symbol of the ever-renewing force of nature through shedding its skin and returning to vital forces. The snake, as the Uroboros, endlessly devours its own tail, the cycle of creation, development, and death. The trio in this case symbolizes unity, the merging of opposites, the meeting of contrasts, and the encounter of paradoxes. Three primarily represent movement and violence, change and dynamism, which only in four attain the status of equilibrium.
The snake in modern times is a subtle symbol of transformations that shake our world and consciousness.
