“A child being beaten” (Freud’s “Ein Kind wird” Geschlagen”) is the ultimate phantasy of
photography. The light beats the emulsion, leaves ,its marks on it—but these are non-penetrating
non-piercing marks.
by Yoel Regev
“Sky of blue—frame of the universe,” wrote
the Hebrew poet Shaul Tchernichovsky. For Bataille, “the blue of the sky” (le bleu du ciel) was synonymous with the “empty sky,”
by Pioter Shmugliakov
“An exhibition in a museum is typically a conventional frame for exhibiting artworks in a certain space for a certain period of time. Its role is to provide the optimal conditions for exposing the works it presents while remaining—justlike a picture’s actual frame—external to their artistic contents.”
by Pioter Shmugliakov
“I would prefer to term this procedure a meta- mediumal move, which exposes the truth about one medium through another. One could say that while other works in the exhibition are “essential photographs” of various photographic elements, here we are presented with an “essential sculpture” of the essence of photography.”
by Pioter Shmugliakov
“An abstract image originating from developer fluid splashed directly onto photographic.
paper turns out to be a complex set of motifs.”
by Pioter Shmugliakov
“A sheet of photographic paper is probably the best candidate for the honorary role of the (empty) canvas of photography. Alight-sensitive surface is the necessary substrate of the photographic image as analog photography understands it. ”
by Pioter Shmugliakov
“The exhibition “Photo Op” opened on 13 November, at 8 p.m., with empty walls
During that evening, two photographs were printed and framed in “work spaces” within
the gallery, in the audience’s presence; they were later sealed under black Perspex and
hung alongside each other on one of the..”
by Pioter Shmugliakov