Asymptote of a curve is a line such, that coming ever closer they tend towards infinity but will never touch. It is endless desire and longing, belief in and fights for the future which is not approachable in reality. Or is it simply a lie?
Asymptote uses architectural sites that are authentic to the era of socialism. Places, former symbols of power and greatness, elevated in order to make the person feel small. Today they stand still, stripped of essential purpose, abandoned or forgotten like gravestones of their former glory. Asymptote merges past and present, by reflecting on one at the time of the other.
At the basis of the project lies a historical foundation that collaborates with a fictional scenario to blur the lines between reality and memory. Authentic testimonies and archive materials are reinterpreted by the contemporary digital language of fiction based on truth. The goal is not only to reflect on the past but most importantly to address the current state of (post-soviet satellite) society and its values. The project deals with several topics such as paranoia, surveillance, uniformity, normalization, or censorship, all being part of this cultural legacy and having a lasting effect on actual situations, thinking, and behaviour.
All body form in the project is folded within the space to shape a coherent geometrical composition, a symbol of the regime itself. People create a pattern. Each one is stripped of heir own individuality to become a unified form, creating a society where every difference is an anomaly in the system.
selected presentation:
2018: MERROR: Fotografiska Stockholm
2019: Portrait of an Anomaly: CE Contemporary, Milano
2021: MERROR: Fotogtafiska Tallin
2022: Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto
2023: "Not Everything Sucks", Schaufenster, Berlin
2018: FFE Festival Fotografico Europei: curated by Periscope (Claudio Composti)
2016: Asymptote: Slovak National Broadcast, Bratislava
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