Maja Mihajlovic

Sounding Board

‘Sounding Board ‘ is a sounding board for where I have got to in my work. It is also the linking element and architectural framework for a selection of studio objects to test their potential to signify; it is a structure for a system of signs.

That is what my current series of work is sounding out – can communication ever take place? But let’s not leave it up to us: the utensils made me do it.

In my work I attempt to find a way of working with materials and objects that approaches something more like a collaboration with them; that refines a sensitivity to what those materials and things might ‘require’ of me. Can I be a better listener, a sounding board for them?

Nurturing an approach that fosters imaginative openings into a more ‘primal’ and evolutionary process of making and thought, by ‘thinking through materials’ [1], I hope to reinterpret my function amongst my materials as an orchestrator of possible outcomes.

This is - I seem to think - an ongoing, intuitive contemplation of semiotics, and the impossibility of meaning…

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[1] … ‘Thinking occurs through things, where material things are a necessary condition of thought. This suggests that we do not think about things so much as through things.’ Briony Fer, in essay on Gabriel Orozco, 'The Scatter; Scultpure as Leftover’. p224, in Part Object, Part Sculpture, Helen Molesworth ed., Penn State Uni Press 2005.