year: 2012/2016

"When we sort consciously, we say that we interpret,
and when we sort unconsciously, we say that we see."

Ernst Gombrich

Projection immediacy and suggestiveness of of photography
pose a temptation to believe that what we see, gives us an
unmediated, objectified reality.But a photograph can not
confirm nor deny reality.The categories of truth and falsehood
are not applicable in this context.The realistic effect of the
photo is commonly noticed; however, the possibilities which
seem most interesting are those lying in the realist convention,
which eventually lead to the consequences of the recipient
rejecting the objective reality.

So how do we read photography? / images Edith Dufaj

Her paintings exist in a certain state of displacement
in relation to reality, "between pure objectivity
and ethereal dream" The potency of these images undoubtedly
lies in the ability to make real and present what lies
beyond the image, something that may be nonexistent and
the image itself only depicts.An Image may open a path to
that which is not named and insightful.We have to deal
not with the reflection of the same subject or entity,
imitating him, mapping, but rather with its emanation.
Alternately we succumb to the illusion that we are
looking at photos of real objects, only to recognize
that what is in the picture is only a model of reality

PhD Agata Pankiewicz - Academy of Fine Arts