"Our imagination is not enough to grasp what we are missing", postulates Jean Toomer - the attempt to approach this "otherworldly" has always been the responsibility of the visual arts, including the light-forming ones.
Behind the personifying title KRYSTYNA lies the possible view into a world of hidden emotions. The photo series experiments with different, sometimes daring perspectives to capture the unstoppable transience. The subtle photographic contrast of light and shadow, recorded and stored in an apparatus room, is an attempt to capture the invisible.
KRYSTYNA stands for consciousness on a journey to a hidden land - an in-between world, viewed through more or less clouded window panes; the gaze is directed, quasi voyeuristically, from outside to inside.
What might it be like, the state "afterwards"? What does "reality" mean, and what happens when our heart stops beating? Does our consciousness move to another level? The photos try to imagine this state, to represent something that we have never seen.
Gabriella Falana
