Lisafotod
1 lucky day, 2025
Technical specification: 6 units – 2 TVs (50 inches), 4 paintings (64x113cm), 6 frames (94.5 x 123.5 x 16 cm), film Someone’s Having a Lucky Day, 25 min., advertisement Luck just for You, 1 min. Stainless steel, iron, oil paint, acrylic, spray paints.
The work is a bachelor’s graduation piece of fictive art with a message about an event, supplemented by information that is completely undisclosed. It consists of fragments and parts that show a situation that places the main question under the power of various speculations. By combining techniques and media, it obtains various types of narrative “plans” and possible sequences—points of view from which to perceive the big picture. What is important is what is created from the object in people, not what remains as an explanation. As a result of this event, various potential goods are compared, which raises the question of the meaning, function, and material value of things. The following will be an overview of the initial stage, sources of ideas and inspiration, and the creation process of each unit. They consist of a series of paintings called Quick Loans, a film called Someone’s Having a Lucky Day, and an advertising success just for you! . TV is a thing, and a painting is a thing; there is information there that may not mean anything. Advertisements that offer and tempt, and convince you that what they have and you don’t, you might need. All those things, pleasures and offers, all that is needed—so they say. Quick loan advertisements are those that appear in created plots; they are to be used like this—look at them, but don’t take them seriously. One day, when I was painting my TV with loan advertisements, my work was stolen. It was put in a TV box for transportation; maybe they mixed it up. Did they know that there was a painting in the package? Or did they steal it because there was a painting inside? All the paintings are variations of the stolen original. They are displayed in the basement to take advantage of the low ceilings and the specifics of the place. In order to keep them hidden from the public, the untouched wall and the draft make it possible to understand the mood of the story. The installation occupies a corridor, where on one side a sofa is placed opposite the film, and all the paintings are located next to each other. Some are also under the original lights of the place. The advertising position is opposite one of the exits/entrances. Both approaches can be used for exit/entrance; the order in which the screens are revealed differs. The illuminated visitors are, like the film’s reactions, the image of the colored part, which reacts to events together with the viewers. The audible audio is with AI-powered voices speaking the text, which is also generated with its help. Additional sound effects are added to the text of the advertisement, and its length is adjusted to the film. Six things are presented, two of which are useful, and four are considered useless—unsuitable for directly solving problems. This possible direct solution appears in the plots about the theft and exchange of paintings, as well as in the advertisement about the quick loan proposal. Thus, the painting can directly solve a materialistic problem, which is displayed on a useful screen.
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