Untitled
Photogram
Much in my project is left to the will of the event: the case is taken as a co-author. This move associatively expands the boundaries of the artist’s responsibility in the visual language. Here the form expresses itself, forming the material. Anything beyond that contained in its properties goes beyond my message as an artist.
When creating a series of photograms Untitled, the most important thing was the material itself and abstraction, the distance from the artificial “Why?”. As an author, it was important for me to cut off the superfluous, to remove the layer of meaning leading to rationalization. The message itself found flesh in photographic paper, in its light-sensitive layer. For me, it’s about aestheticizing and quietly distancing from seeing the experience of loss.
I created this series of works as an emotional response to the loss of an archive of digital material; the response to the event required an analog incarnation.
The newly formed forms ignore the surrounding world, offering open questions, immersion, a skeptical rejection of the material in a single material form. Despite the formal abstractness of the photograms in the project, they retain the diegesis of the image itself — here there is light, air, dust, sediment of fixative liquid, a face. All forms are depicted directly, with naive, childishly direct embellishment with pigment.
