From Trashed To Treasured By Paul Camic

FOUND OBJECTS – CLOTHES - PHOTOS. Found objects have qualities that the new objects lack. Their time deepness, the history, memories and emotions that they carry with them contradict their superficially diminishing wornness, commonness and unworthiness. As objects, they oppose to the inhuman capitalistic culture, the culture of mass consumerism, which does not use as a standard of success the human value, but the value of profit. By throwing them away, bonds cannot be created, a fact that leads to a kind of emotional deficit and gap. This behaviour reflects not only contemporary man’s thought on the material world, but human relationships as well.
As Paul Camic describes in his article “From Trashed to Treasured” (2010, p82)
“It is during the locating and finding process that the value of the object, once considered to be junk or rubbish, changes. The junk object becomes transformed into the valued found object.”
By touching them, we detach them by the lap of nature, which in her vast dominion is so easily degenerating into ugliness.

This feeling becomes stronger when it comes to personal objects, and especially clothes. In the installation “Resurrecturis”, clothes are used to represent the Greek people who have killed themselves during the last five years, as a result of the inhuman politics and imposed austerity. A clothe represents at the same time the absence and presence of a person. It works as a shell for the body. Found clothes, mixed together, create a deformed illusion of a man, dismantled and recomposed. And in fact, the more someone’s clothes are displayed, the more their absence is