by Fatma Nur Özogul & Violeta Ivanova
2016
video, ca 6 min
“Hard to say” is a series of works which deals with the imperfection of the foretelling process in general. It interprets the hope and constancy we invest in predicting and forecasting in an absurd way.
It´s a wish based on the human’s desire to set goals and choose different means to achieve them. That is the way to obtain expected results. But the real results of people’s activity do not always coincide with their plans. Scientists believe that the universe is governed by well-defined laws that in principle allow one to predict the future. But the motion given by those laws is often chaotic. This means that a tiny change in the in the initial situation can lead to change in the subsequent behaviour that rapidly grows large. Unfortunately between now and the bright future stays a great wall of obstacles.
In “Hard to say 1” the protagonist has great difficulties to apply her fortune telling skills. The cards she´s trying to use are smaller than her nails. It seems like the future/the meaning is “running” trough her hands. The spread is about a relation in between two sides. As the spread meant to be interpreting behaviours in sociological aspects; while the fortune teller deals with the difficulties of foretelling process, the future of the seeker (the society) gets more and more complicated and uncertain.
In making the cards miniature or man-sized (Hard to say 2) one could see a parallel with the myth for Sisyphus.
Fatma Nur Özogul 