Mantike`

This series of works are based on the artists ongoing investigate a metaphorical journey aimed to heal ones inner self.

Carl Jung suggested that the experience of psychosis is a journey for the individual to rediscover something that has been lost to him and to restore a vital balance back into his life.

Especially in its schizophrenic form, it can be compared to an existential journey, which would with safe surroundings be a route towards recovery. In her work Cecilia Bullo explores the relationship between the individual and specific locations as well as objects/amulets, which embody for the holder almost magical properties. The viewer is invited into an imaginary inner journey using as triggers votive objects/sculptures, which have an encoded symbolism as well as allowing free association. The work proposed are photographs of votive sculptures which the artist carved in stone, after which were ritualistically bathed in water and beetroot juice and photographed, recording their own journey. Each sculpture represents an anatomical part of the human body. “Mantike” is inspired by the cochlea (the auditory portion of the inner ear) and “Medulla” by the spinal cord (the thin, tubular bundle of nervous tissue and support cells that extends from the brain, the medulla oblongata specifically). In ancient Greek the term “Mantike” was used to describe madness, raving, insanity or divine inspiration.