Come Closer

Lapis Lazuli Nak

5 January 2023 - 29 January 2023

Circumambulation (from Latin circum:around and ambulātus:to walk) is the act of moving around a sacred object or idol.

Circumambulation as a working title and description of praxis, a series of new works that Lapis has started in August 2022 after graduating. With this new series he intend to circumambulate around the core of the subject matter of his work, forever moving around it but not touching it. He wish to use the act of circumambulating as a way of honouring and coming close to easily wounded subjects, brittle material conditions and sensitive emotional realities.

“I hope that in this way my work invokes curiosity, “what is it about?” I think that this curiosity is party invoked by my choice of not exposing the core, and partly this curiosity already resides within us, I think that wanting to come close or be close is a very common desire, to be in the know and inside of the core, especially since we live in a world where people are constantly denied entrance of the core of humanity, I think sometimes we try to reach someone else’s core to ease that pain and feeling of alienation, but what my practice is about or what is important for me is to practice not touching or entering the core. This because my work tends to deal with very fragile lived realities, and I think that in a way my aim is to protect them.”

For the EXboot Lapis will show a new work that circumambulates around it’s core, not fully revealing what this vessel(work) is holding.

“I work with many different media, and for the exboot I intend to develop this work so that it is custom made for the space.
An installation consisting of small works made in different media that exist/breath with the space so that they don’t over power it, no structural alterations made to the space beside maybe a few screws in the wall. My intention for the work is for it to be a welcomed visitor, keeping into account the history and present of the space it is in.”

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