Vladimir Tomić

Fingerprint in chaos: Phenomenology of framing

My practice explores the visual psychology of the unconscious, focusing on the transition into consciousness. My central theme is extracting elements from primordial chaos and structuring them into coherent, emitting entities. This process represents a complex confrontation with unpredictable inner life, channeling it into a clear formal structure. Within this framework, each artwork mirrors chaos, where the frame functions as an active space of interaction and a field for both viewer projection and personal reflection.
This path is non-linear, defined by cyclical processes of losing, searching, fracturing, and returning. Connecting my chaotic inner universe to the framed outer environment leaves marks on the surface—scars of lived experience that mark the transition between realities. My construction relies on a threefold process: releasing internal pressures, searching for meaning, and framing content. Through combination, association, and direct confrontation, scattered elements of chaos become building blocks of the self, turning the artistic act into an existential tool for integrating fragments of identity into consciousness.
I maintain deliberate autonomy between my studio practice and theoretical writing. I do not create artwork to illustrate text, nor do I write theory as a studio guide. The studio serves as my arena for intuitive, tactile experimentation with medium and surface, while my writing operates as a scholarly investigation into the phenomenology of the aesthetic mark. Though independent, these tracks cross-pollinate. Material discoveries inform my academic writing, while theoretical research into the "Emission of Presence" provides a framework for analyzing how order emerges from chaos.

• Home
• Recent works
• Fingerprint in Chaos
• Installation view