I learned about Ali's photographs from international news outlets. The photographs of this young (born 1999) Syrian photographer became the subject of an international scandal by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman named Zhao Lijian. The Chinese official used Ali's photos depicting a Syrian boy playing with an artillery shell as "proof" of the misery the United States has brought to Afghan (sic!) children. Ali Haj Suleiman, IdlibProblem...
Artists
Rafal Swosinski is one of those photographers who, instead of "philosophizing", simply prefer to photograph. And that he does not lack talent, beautiful photographs come out.... We are not interested today in the entire oeuvre of this author (there will still be time for that...), but only in a certain episode in his photography, namely the photos he took in Górka Klasztorna near Lobezenica....
One day I opened my eyes wide and saw that the world I knew and co-created was completely destroyed. The values, feelings and beliefs that were most important to me had completely disintegrated. I fell into a deep sleep where nothing made sense. All my life I thought that such situations could happen to anyone but me. I was wrong." When on...
Magdalena Zolędź: How would you define your theoretical background? How does it influence your work? Matthew Sadowski: It depends on current fascinations. I would locate it in certain sections of fiction and popular science publications, rather than in art theory. The influence of these interests (on my work) is indirect. I assume that a work of art can have characteristics that are different and peculiar....
The contrasting nature of the North makes one realize that in addition to the fairy-tale nature colored in watercolors by master illustrator and king of children's fantasy John Bauer, full of unusual creatures derived from Swedish folklore, there is also a nature full of anxiety, darkness and mysticism, reminiscent of Nordic shamanism and Old Scandinavian sagas. Bauer's illustrations captured the imagination of generations of Swedes. They believed that nature was a product of...
I tell the story of silence through photography. The inspiration is John Cage's piece 4'33" - its score could be white sheets of paper. Silence in music, which has its own weight and volume, is important because it creates space for emotions to resound. Non-acoustic silence, the silence of the inner landscape, as a state of consciousness, is the one that directs us towards ourselves. The silence of the silent cosmos, the harmony of the spheres....
I open the hotel door and the first thing that hits me is the solitude of the colors. Then there is silence, in which light subtly walks. It attracts my bewildered gaze, leads me discreetly, invites me to explore a world unknown to me. I turn the page, as if opening another door of another world written in light and silent colors. The more I discover, the faster I disappear; I disappear as a passive observer, as a human being,....
The Japanese ideogram for butoh consists of two elements: bu means dance, while toh means step. However, the original name had a certain addition. Ankoku Butoh meant the dance of darkness. In Maciej Rusinek's photographs, the dance of darkness is transformed into images of light. While dance expresses the pure energy extracted from the darkness of the human body, photography depicts the light that comes from it....
- How would you start living if you found out you had one year to live? - Peter M., a long-time friend of mine, once asked. I care less about how he answered his own question, but I was reminded of this incident when I picked up a book by Krzysztof Slachciak entitled "More likely we are not special," where the author asks the question: are we special?....
Everything that exists has a mystery. All kinds of creative activities, including those related to the visual arts, are an attempt to get closer to what is contained between the lines, or rather between the images, as Michelangelo Antonioni himself once put it in an interview. Namely, to what is unrecorded, unarticulated, unspoken expressis verbis. The more we are able to...