Artists' Statement

We understand the work in a team as a never-ending dialogue, where all the set parameters are constantly changing. We consciously abandon the modernistic ego and try to keep creating and reinventing our platform for an art history discourse. Our working methods evolve gradually with important emphasis on simplicity of form, resignation on a unique formal style and thinking based on our own personal experiences. Our original education comes from very conservative understanding of photography. We have studied at the Dept. of Photography at FAMU in Prague - a school respected in central Europe for it's modernist fine art photography.

Gradually we became analytically critical towards this attitude and towards the medium itself. We have become interested in photography as a subject and theme for our work and over the time we have used different strategies of exploring aspects of photographic medium as such. We have decided to attempt on exhausting some of the limits of the medium as well as to observe photography as a social phenomenon. Continuously we are learning that working process involving photography causes deep awareness of the character and limits of human perception and consequently the human existence.

Currently we are working on a number of interlinked rather long term projects, very different in way of presentation, yet all concerned with depiction of the difference between the real and assumed space in photography. These projects operate with an idea of abstraction in photographs that explores the indexical relationship between reality and its image yet they cannot reveal what is behind the shown. We always use similarly generic subject matter as we are concerned with creating a fairly open situation that generates number of levels of understanding. We aim at creation of rather universally arranged situations that ideally serve a trigger for viewers interpretations. An essential theme we are currently concerned with is the human perception of infinity and possibilities of its depiction. The existence of infinity defining the basic trauma of our definite lives and the paradox of our relationship with the world around us.

Photography has always been and still is a basic point of reference to us. The center of gravity that defines what is in front and what behind, what is in focus and what is blurry… A center surrounded by cloud of orbiting elements all defined by similar laws of physics yet each quite unique in shape and color. And eventually this being reflected in the result where the exhibition becomes the final product containing and infinite number of possible combinations of different outputs: photographs, prints, artist's books, video and installation.