You Never Look at Me from The Place from which I See You
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Dates2022 - Ongoing
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Author
- Topics Landscape
The work presented deals with the gaze and presumptions when it comes to the question of who or what can see.
The theoretical basis of this work is the investigation of multiple possible readings of the psychoanalytical and philosophical concept of Das Unheimliche (English translation: the uncanny).
The chosen space – the landscapes and the figure which appear in each individual photograph – constitute the main part of the photographic work. Experiencing one’s own subjectivity which defines the outer world is represented both with the figure and the landscapes. The appearance of the double in photographs is an extension of the interpretation of the Unheimliche effect-
The work investigates the boundaries between the hidden and the exposed, the comprehensible and the incomprehensible, much like the concept of Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny) which in itself simultaneously contains the distant and the familiar aspect of someone or something revealed in its dreary and, effectively, unrecognizible shape. The work presented in this thesis deals with the gaze and presumptions when it comes to the question of who or what can see, as well as the ways in which the author subjectively experiences and represents the given topic.
Luna Jovanovic
