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Igor Eskinja Croatian, b. 1975

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Igor Eskinja, Laboratory, 2010

Igor Eskinja Croatian, b. 1975

Laboratory, 2010
Lambda print
120 x 160 cm
47 1/4 x 63 in
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
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In 2010 Igor Eškinja created a series of photographs entitled ‘Laboratory’.The images represent a group of semi-abstract human figures within an indefinite exhibition space, in a sort of contemplation marked...
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In 2010 Igor Eškinja created a series of photographs entitled ‘Laboratory’.The images represent a group of semi-abstract human figures within an indefinite exhibition space, in a sort of contemplation marked in three different moments. The silhouettes were made with photographic backdrop paper and placed on the gallery floor. Two backgrounds that enter into dialogue through the illusion of perspective reconstructed through the lens of the camera.One of the images that inspired the artist was born following the vision of a photograph depicting a group of students visiting the exhibition by Eva Hesse in 1979, present in the book ‘A Manual for the XXI Century Art Institution’ and published by the White Chapel gallery in London in 2009. The work represents the subjects seated on an invisible sofa, with their eyes turned towards the wall. The perspective makes the viewer believe that the spectators are in an unreal place compared to the one in which they are located, almost as if they were behind the curtain of a theater.Igor Eškinja compares the construction of reality to an overturning, to a superstructure of media elements that intensify both, due to the almost harmless composition of the people sitting in the area of interest and to the rigorous tension towards an act of decapitation.Unconscious, headless people who become a metaphor for a historical moment in which the omnipresence of the great cultural institutions has created for the first time a super culture and a homogenization of what is now considered valid in the contemporary art panorama.The other two shots represent details of some people standing, watching an exhibition that is not there. The viewer can see the typical white walls of the white cube. This series of photographs is a silent reaction that aims to make us reflect on how much our cultural system has imposed itself on the individuality and identity of individuals today.
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