Universe for Beginners, exhibition at RBSA Gallery -17th to 28th October 2023
Universe For Beginners
Universe For Beginners brings together photographs, paintings, and drawings created between 2019 and 2023 which in various ways touch on the subject of code, selforganisation, information and communication.
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Drawing from both, natural and virtual environments, I capture variety of forms and patterns that appeal to me through their esthetical qualities or intriguing, unique forms. Quite many of them are based on various visual representations of the binary code which attracted me with their striking geometric beauty. Binary code has an essential role not only in the development of information technologies (virtual world) but, what’s much more exciting, the evolution of life in general. Some scientists even suggest that BIT (binary digit with 0 and 1 states) is an “elementary particle of the Universe”*, its “unit of life”**.
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The patterns and codes captured using various photographic methods (a combination of analog and digital) are accompanied by abstract writing on canvas and paper generated by myself. I use the word “generated’ intentionally as the process of making them is devoid of conscious creative decisions. They happen in an automated and involuntary way which I explain as being a result of my lifelong observations of structures in nature, and attraction to variety of abstract and virtual pattens.
Wild apple, 2020. Lambda print on fiber-based paper, 39x39 in.
Braille code II, 2021, Lambda print on fiber-based paper, 39x27 in. / The work was created with a page from the vintage "The Book of Numbers' written in Braille. I used the small LED lamp to illuminate the photographic paper through the Braille page to achieve the pattern.
Braille code I, 2021, Lambda print on resin coated paper, 16x20 in Its an enlarged copy of the very first photogram I created using a page from the book written in Braille code. I used the small LED lamp to illuminate the photographic paper through the Braille page to achieve the pattern that reveals the code from both sides of the page resulting in more random and abstract forms.
Manuscript, 2021, Giclee print on Somerset paper, 39x27 in
No title, 2022, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
Fern, 2022, Lambda print on resin coated paper, 16x20 in
Braille code III, 2021, Unique gelatin silver print, 16x20 in. / Photogram. The work was created with a page from the vintage book "The Book of Numbers' written in Braille. I used the small LED lamp to illuminate the photographic paper through the Braille page to achieve the pattern. The pattern shows the Braille code from both sides of the page resulting in more random and abstract quality.
No title, Charcoal and oil on canvas, 2023, 35x47 in
No title, Charcoal and oil on canvas, 2023, 16x20 in
Wild Goose, 2021, Unique gelatin silver print, 5x7 inch
Braille code VII, 2023, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in / The work was created with a page from the vintage book "The Book of Numbers' written in Braille. I used the small LED lamp to illuminate the photographic paper through the Braille page to achieve the pattern that reveals the code from both sides of the page resulting in more random and abstract forms.
Braille code VI, 2022, Unique gelatin silver print, 8x10 in
No title I, 2022, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
Sphere I, 2023, Unique gelatin silver print, 12x16 in
No title, Oil on canvas, 2023, 47x47 in
However small, I can still cause a storm; 2021, Unique gelatin silver print, 7x5 in
No title, 2023, Ink on paper
Braille code IV, 2019, Unique gelatin silver print, 8x10 in
Baudot-Murray code I, 2020, Gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
"Endless Sensegiving" (part 1 of the diptych), 2020, Gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
"Endless Sensegiving" (part 2 of the diptych), 2020, Gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
No title, 2022, Unique gelatin silver print, 8x10 in
Avocado seed, 2021, Scan from 35mm film
Binary Garden - landscape I, 2020, Gelatin silver print, 9.5x7.5 in
Binary Garden - landscape II, 2020, Gelatin silver print, 9.5x7.5 in
Pianola code I, 2023, Unique gelatin silver print, 12x9.5 in
Pianola code I, 2023, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
Binary Garden - landscape III, 2020, Gelatin silver print, 9.5x7.5 in
Pianola code II, 2023, Unique gelatin silver print, 12x9.5 in
Nettles, 2019, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
Source Code I, 2019, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
Coexistence,2023,Composition of eighty-two gelatin silver prints mounted on aluminium sheets, 5x5 in
No title, 2021, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
No title, 2021, Digital photograph
Source code, 2021, Analogue print on expired Kodak paper (about 40 years old),
Flow,2021,Oil on a board, 20x30 in
Apple tree branch,2023,Ink on a paper, A3
No title, Oil on canvas, 2023, 47x35 in
No title, 2022, scan from 35mm film
Spring blossoms, 2021, Gelatin silver print, 16x12 in
Sphere II, 2023, Unique gelatin silver print on expired Kodak paper (about 40 years old), 16x12 in
Trajectories I, 2022, Unique gelatin silver print, 10x8 in
No title, Charcoal on paper, 2023, 20x16 in
No title, Charcoal on paper, 2023, A4
Tree I, Binary Garden, 2019, Gelatin silver print / The tree is created with the data visualizations from ourworldindata.com. The visualizations were recorded on expired Kodak gelatine silver paper by direct exposure from the screen. Combination of two gelatine silver prints. 15"x12"
No title, 2021, Digital photograph
No title, 2022, Scan from 35mm film
No title, 2021, Scan from 35mm film
Heron, 2022, Scan from 35mm film
No title, 2021, Unique gelatin silver print, 5x3.5 inch
Binary Garden - landscape V, 2020, Gelatin silver print, A4