Paradise II

An attempt at greatness.

Salka has a nostalgic, glorifying outlook on drawing pictures associated with familiar, every-day images of engraved consumerism and laissez-faire utopias - at times linked with concepts of freedom and escapism. In the spirit of adding luster to mundane and decadent imagery, she attempts to capture a bitter-sweet feeling of disenchantment with a certain doomed promise of greatness. 

Deriving from the Situationist notion of the spectacle, the artist plays with re-assigning the roles of the consumer and the objects of consumption. Her creative approach & process in realising these works is repetitive, stoical and meditative, based on a tactile craftsmanship and slow-production mode which come as a contrast to the capitalistic themes they depict.