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Galerija Skuc : ALEKSANDRA VAJD & HYNEK ALT - When Will I See You Again - 13 Dec 2012 to 13 Jan 2013 Current Exhibition |
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ALEKSANDRA VAJD & HYNEK ALT
When Will I See You Again 13th December 2012 � 13 January 2013 |
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ALEKSANDRA VAJD & HYNEK ALT When Will I See You Again 13th December 2012 – 13 January 2013 Opening of the exhibition on Thursday, 13th November at 20.00 at Škuc Gallery. Curated by: Tev� Logar Transforming or rearticulating the media of art is a natural development of artistic expression, which always directly refers to the spirit of the times: specific geo-political, social and economic factors. This is directly connected to how different mechanisms of the art system canonise and affirm art media. Photography is no exception, as it sought to join the art system from the first beginnings in the first half of the nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth, attaining a status equal to that of the classic media of sculpture and painting. But just when photography began to enter visual arts more resolutely via conceptual practices, a question about the possibilities, limits and existence of the medium began to emerge. This questioning of the medium provided some sort of starting point for preparing an exhibition of works by Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt, whose approach to photography very directly and innovatively moves beyond traditional media categorisation. The exhibition When Will I See You Again in Škuc Gallery seeks to present different levels of the perception and development of photography, while revealing layers of content which are the result of over ten years of collaboration. Over a decade before George Bernard Shaw became engaged with photography, he wrote in his novel entitled Unsocial Socialist (1883): “ Photography is not an art in the sense in which Iunderstand the term. It is a process.” This does not refer to the contemporary understanding of process in art in the sense of art practices as contemporary laboratories in which various experiments and research take place, but particularly to becoming aware of the anchor points that photography as a medium can have. In Shaw’s case, as we later discover, it is a question of highlighting the possibility of ‘the social’ in the context of photography; however, perhaps more crucial is to recognise the potential of photography, particularly in terms of the relationship between the created photographic image and its content “anchor points". This also provides the key to reading the exhibition When Will I See You Again in Škuc Gallery: it seems that the photographs of Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alto are constituted in the relationship to their “anchor points”, which dictate their format. Therefore, in the context of their work, the viewer constantly sees the traditional photographic image transformed into a moving picture or object, or even a relationship in space, which seem like a study of sculpture. These unusual transitions are constantly being defined, while the content “anchor point” linked to individual projects that question authorship, intimacy, social and sexual identity or art references are constantly thematised. By questioning the “photographic image as something final”, the authors directly address the viewer’s experience or lack of it, and seek to reveal processes which are usually hidden behind traditional photographic images, framed and hung on a wall. The existence and non-existence of a photographic image has become a model for the work of Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt, which continuously makes the viewer doubt what photography is, offering the possibility for further contemplation of the subject, both by the artists and the viewers. Photography as understood by Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt never ceases to challenge, revealing a restlessness and conflict between the final image and the process of its creation. Therefore, it seems that we not only see the photographic (non)images, but also hear, read and perceive them with all the senses. The exhibition does not seek to present a linear narrative via individual photographic projects, but attempts to show the close connection between the shifts in content and form, “anchor points” revealing the artists’ relationship to the medium of photography in different periods. Walking through When Will I See You Again seems like an endless dialogue: between the artists, between man and woman, between the art work and the viewer, between different expressive media, which is connected with an intimate story being slowly revealed, layer after layer, but is never concluded. (Tev�Logar) More about the artists: http://www.altvajd.com/ |
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