"The Cerberus video alludes to Cerberus, a mythological creature that resides in the intermediate space between life and death, where it prevents the unwanted from passing between the world of the living and the world of the dead. In Jaka Vatovec’s work, it represents a person with OCD. A collaged photocopy of a three-headed dog on a purple paper appears several times in the video, and among the images stand out mainly the phonographic portrayals of spiders and spider webs, which belong to Vatovec’s darker aesthetic, although they do not necessarily represent a bad omen. In the artist’s interpretation, the dog’s heads, which are in constant conflict, represent the battle between rational or real and irrational, that is, intrusive thoughts and obsessions, which are accompanied by the feelings of guilt and self-loathing. Cerberus’ task is to make sure that intense compulsive thoughts do not come to the surface of consciousness and affect the individual’s functioning. They are a kind of dead thoughts: traces of cognitive activity, a source of emotions that are difficult of manage, accompanied by strong anxiety and psychological distress." (Source: Anabel Černohorski, Sebastian Krawczyk, Ana Grobler, excerpt from curatorial text from Alkatraz Gallery)

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