Vasilika Tsingos

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting)

How do we legitimise an inaccessible object when situated within a frame?
My practice interrogates the intentionality of the frame and displaced familiar objects. To extend on this framework structure, I have created a series of multimedia sculptures which allude to a window in its reduced form.
When considering a collective memory of the familiar ‘window’, how do we respond when faced with an object that denies us qualities that we expect within the frame? Is there an element of universality governing our response or is it more of a personal feeling, thought or lack of thought when processing a material and conceptual dissonance? The viewer is met with the familiarity of the object yet is simultaneously confronted with a lack of accessibility due to its materiality – each weld, scratch and placement being slightly skewed.

I am interested in this ambiguous nature of interaction – or at times a lack of interaction – and how these nuances can create a point of tension between viewer and object. I am fascinated by the structure of a window and how the perceptibility of such an object can change when removed from a domestic context while still existing in such a static way. An object referencing a void, or an anti-void, of visual stimuli. Do we want more, expect more, imagine more? What does this reveal about our collective schemas and psychology when presented with an absence?