TERRITORY
“ A part of the everyday or material world and its surfaces can always appear as a completely unrecognisable object, non-existent and absent in our everyday perception.”
“A map is not a territory” is a quotation by Alfred Korzybski, with which the author tries to give clues for understanding this series of photographs. Can we understand photography as a kind of a map that interprets the world around us and consequently helps us to know it? As soon as we really pay attention to all the dimensions, patterns and details of this same world that photographs, in their traditional tendency to mimesis, try to represent and thus help us to orient ourselves in, we soon realise that the territory we are moving through is becoming unfamiliar to us just as we are trying to reduce it to an intrinsically complete and logical object of cognition. And this is precisely what the author wants to concretise with these photographs – namely, that a part of the everyday or material world and its surfaces can always appear as a completely unrecognisable object, non-existent and absent in our everyday perception.
Territory / Teritorij on display at PHOTON – CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA