To Fulfill One's Dance Of Purpose - Modern Art

Lisa Jahovic, a Multi-disciplinary Artist and filmmaker (Solo Exhibition at Flowers Gallery, Cork St) created a duet of artworks capturing the themes of beauty in the ordinary in the form of abstract sculptures. 'Pirouette. 2023 ' , seemed to have shown an old Oxford style shoe, attached to a rotating spring at an angle. 

As an Indian student in tenth grade, facing the harsh reality of societal standards for finals in the so-called rat race for perfection I felt drawn to this artwork for its solemn beauty and ability to thrive irrespective of people's expectations. Ballet, known to be one of the most beautiful, notoriously difficult and elegant forms of dance often felt portrayed as the epitome of perfection in film. Now it is an obscurely foggy memory leaving only  the longing to have pursued it further.

Pirouette encapsulates an air of silence, the ghosts of passion and the dance of machine and object in the absence of humans. Ironically this felt comforting, in contrast with the rise of corrupt use of artificial intelligence to attempt to replace creativity.

 I thought it proved a point- art like it invoked nostalgia. Art without a natural creator would always echo its absence, and in this message Pirouette seems to show its value. It was not cheerful or near the pristine image it would be held to and it didn't need to be. The jarringly old film style, the twist and twirls of the fabric as the string that guided its dance only for it to ultimately be the part to pin it down to its supporting frame. Luckily, people are not everyday objects, not entirely immobile despite their complacency to their environment.