About Noraset

 "The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, XIII.9.

      Life is also full of fear, which, in turn, results in aggressiveness, a deeply rooted instinct to kill one another as a way to end fear. Besides such a radical - and bloody - option for solving one's problems, humankind has developed a trick of sorts. A substitute to outright killing and that is distorting and concealing the truth. To protect themselves, people (including myself) alter, embellish, expand, and truncate the raw reality to the point that it becomes an invented, seductive reality. One that bears only a distant relation with the society it is supposed to be referring to.

     The power and authority of the State and the ruling elite, who embody conservative ethics and morality, serve to disguise and cover the potential inner violence, more often than not, of a forbidden, sexual nature. Endeavours to reveal what is concealed, is a formidable challenge for a conceptual artist.

      As a ‘subconsciouspace’ artist, capable of greed and anger and love, I have a secret desire to confront those challenges and expose what is hidden and forbidden in the atom of human society. Moved by the notion that everything (be it political, economic, social, or personal) is interrelated and nothing is happening by chance, I aspire to free the human mind from the insidious myth of harmony, and reverse it to a state of "natural truth". I consider uncovering the veiled substrate of things, and their hidden meaning as a process to overcome fear.

      My works seek to translate this desire to go to the heart of the matter, and to crystallize the thin, absurd link between good and evil, purity and filth encountered in everyday life.