Bright Eyes Burning Like Fire

A photograph titled "Bright Eyes Burning Like Fire" is a reproduction of a cracked glass on a dark background. The crack in the glass is cut according to an image of a lightning. The random path of a lightning is fixed in a crack thus denying both the randomness as well as its temporary character.

Our working process is based on isolation of items or situations out of the original relationships and placing them into a completely new context. We are fascinated by the disproportion and the tension created by this shift. The working process is a permanent dispute with photography itself and with photography related issues (simulation, photography as evidence, subjectivity and objectivity in documentation, image in an image). Going back to the initial function of photography to capture a fleeing moment we got interested in an image of a lighting which we decided not to take rather use an existing one (photograph served as a source). The result was a crack in the glass according to the source image and while rephotographed turned back again into an artifact (photograph). From that approach the very nature of reproduction and representation as constituent aspects of photography were thrown into doubt. Simulation became the new paradigm of an image, and thus also of photography.

The two significant shifts in materials and subjects created a cluster of ideas and issues related to qualities of photography itself, a millisecond-lasting moment and a monumental object. The amazement with natural phenomena of the striking lightning is transformed into an artificial object and then back to an image suggesting an immediate experience. The original momentary experience is translated into a permanent act.

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