HERINGE schwarz, 2019
100 x 140 cm
Fine art print on cottonpaper
Signed, with certificate
3 copies

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Three herrings lie close, side by side,
With silver skin and quiet pride.

No room to move, no space to play,
No chance to dance or swim away.

The water’s gone, they cannot breathe,
Small fish struggle underneath.

When sharks grow strong and take too much,
They leave the tank with nothing left to touch.

Without the little fish so bright,
Working daily out of sight,

Sooner or later, great or small,
Must go without—they lose it all.

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Ata Bozaci deals with the human in space in our digitalized world. The window to the outside world was the view from the window to the street a few decades ago. Today it’s the view into the display of the smartphone. The world is changing rapidly and becomes confusing. Our perception oscillates between reality and the artificial world like a pendulum clock. It's getting harder and harder to separate these two worlds. This generates uncertainty, anxiety and conflicts, which bring rigidity into the movement. Digital is dead material, long gone past, which we want to bring back to life repeatedly, despising reality.