Interstellar thing (2011)
Tar and acrylics on cut paper
Even though part of our everydayness as living creatures of an orbiting planet, looking upwards towards the celestial dome constitutes a kind of reckoning with the enigma of life and with the enormity of the universe. How can one visualise its inconceivable vastness?
With a keen interest in the concept of borders being points of intersection, Tapas, in this series of works, and from where Interstellar Thing originates, searches for ideas and images that could place us between the real and the fictional.
Replacing pencil with a cutting knife, he draws by removing pieces from the paper’s surface.
The act could be construed as corresponding to the attempt to give shape to the void, while the representation of the starry sky could be seen as positioning us between the known and unknown, the finite and the infinite.
Elena Parpa, Planetes exhibition catalogue