The project “No Light” shows hidden emotions of the photographed people by means of very graphic, raster, black and white images. The project aimed at revealing what is “personal”, intimate, what the project protagonists are ashamed of and do not want to expose. People say that photography is light, while my aim was to avoid it and so I took the photographs in complete darkness. To extract an image from the black frame I forced the film, obtaining very graphic, granular images. Darkness emboldened the participants. If it had not been for the procedure, the protagonists would not have decided to stand in front of the camera and lay bare their weaknesses and complexes.

No light

The cycle „They Were” boils down to the Man Ray-like form of negatives onto which signs and numbers symbolising the character of the depicted figure have been painted by hand. The point of departure of this abstract, surrealist cycle was numerology and the symbolism of geometry used to define the portrayed person, as well as to bring them closer to the viewer. The negative contributes to the unrealness of the memories of them. Painting on the works is a performative action where the author, so to say, marks the portrayed women, making each work unique in the process.

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