Landing of Meaning
2015, digital photography, series, long exposure
‘Landing of Meaning’ is inspired by the connection between photography and spacetime dimensional model. The long exposures make an attempt to give photographic expression and abstract visual dramaturgy to the concepts of gravitational singularity and event horizon. Gravitational singularity is a point with zero volume and infinite density, outside of spacetime, appearing at the very beginning of the Big Bang and inside black holes. The event horizon is its opposite, the boundary of spacetime beyond which the force is so strong that it is impossible to be overcome even in light.
The task of the photo-eye in ‘Landing of Meaning’ is to create another, different version of outer spacetime, in which light, the medium of photography, keeps going forward. The movements of the camera in the long exposures distort spacetime, shake, tilt and move the distant horizon, the ultimate abstraction for the human gaze, by which the observer enters a new cognitive experience. The photographically transformed consciousness creates a new cognitive situation. The camera turbulence encodes this meaning as something dramatic entering the world in this imaginary photographic post-apocalypse. The trajectory above the event horizon is the horizon of photography.