Lukasz Cyrus

Self-portrait

Abstracted, geometrical structure of the world captured in an image is a medium for artist’s feelings, emotions and sensitivity. The images in the “Selfportrait” series do not bring viewers any closer to discovering the truth about the places photographed. However, they do reveal the artist’s perception. The images therfore stop being the pictures of the subject matter to become the pictures of their creator. A photographic camera looks both ways. When I look at things through the viewfinder, I take a look deep into my soul. The “Selfportrait” series is a part of “Fotografia odklejona” series. It has been exhibited during “Art Night” at DeKa Gallery, Rybnik, Poland in 2018. The series is a collection of 5 triptychs (15 photographic works), highly representative to the “Split photography” concept.

Photographer

Lukasz Cyrus

Split Photography

I believe that photography is like instrumental music. It needs no words nor stories to tell to evoke emotions. Photography does not need to refer to anything we know to exist and make its way to our memory. To be honest, I believe that the more it separates from reality, the more we can appreciate it as it is since it no longer imitates anything. It splits from reality.

Split photography can be endlessly interpreted as on its own it is incomplete. Split photography cannot be compared with its original subject matter as the subject matter comes from the world that split photography does not try to imitate. Facing split photography, words lose their power. Therefore, there is no way to describe split photography. It must be experienced.

Split photography comes from the realm of emotions and imagination. It should be sensed with emotions and imagination.

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