Tag: Perceptions
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Boating on the Wisla
Boating on the Wisla I was struck by the little boats. So tiny, they look like toys! The culprit is the huge building at the back. It creates a kind of inverse perspective and we are not used to that. As if the right proportions between the objects have gone lost. A confusing image. Photo…
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After the blaze
A house almost burnt down, the fire still flaring up. That’s what it looked like but in fact it was a dilapidated house of which only frame and roof were still standing, while behind it the sun had just come up above the horizon. Fire was there, but far away, … some 150 million km.…
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Legs in unison
Legs in unison The central image in the picture is one of 196 photos, fit in wooden screens, that together formed the installation by Dayanita Singh at the Kochi Biennale 2014. The Exhibition Guide says that the installation “is a year’s work presented as a series of interconnected movements in life and thought (…)”. For the viewer…
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Nostalgic bricks
It is amazing that precisely the work of one of the youngest participants of the Kochi Biennale 2014 evokes memories, images and emotions in me of the Kerala that I know of 40 years ago. Unnikrishnan C, born in 1991 in a family of basket weavers in Kerala, started painting the bricks of his parental…
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Through the looking glass
Up close: Light-rimmed, dark faces, all similar, each one different. Made by the artist out of paper pulp, rice paper, acrylic and art powder colour. With their wide open mouths they look startled, scared; but – according to the Exhibition Guide – they are initiates singing at their first holy communion. Two steps back: From…
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I am eyeye
I like eyeye. It is one of the words coined by Aram Saroyan that were written on walls at the Kochi Biennale. One eye overlapping a second eye, like in the vision through our own pair of eyes which enables us to see the world. I like lighght. To see, we need light in our…
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Rectangles in perspective
Geometrical figures, seen in real space from a certain viewpoint, then photographed, and subsequently reproduced on the flat, rectangular plane of a photo ….. they can make for interesting images. When we look through our eyes, the brain takes care of correcting to a certain extent the optical distortions that occur, and produces an image…
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