{"id":12062,"date":"2022-01-15T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerie-obrist.de\/wordpress\/?p=12062"},"modified":"2022-03-19T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:48:18","slug":"thomas-zika-sovereign-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galerie-obrist.de\/en\/thomas-zika-sovereign-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Zika – Sovereign Fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statement by Thomas Zika:
“…Before taking any photographs I am pretreating my analog 4\u00d75 inch film material with mushrooms, which pollute out their spores latently on the film sheets, creating beautiful, but chaotic lamella circles. Depending on humidity and ripeness I let this hidden process endure from hours to months. Serendipity is my friend and my enemy: the emergences of the artefacts on the film sheets are accidentally and unpredictable. The fungi segregate their spores upon the surface lying underneath originating extremely delicate lamellar aureoles appearing as a mix of explosion and aura.
\nAdditionally I am mounting roots from dehydrated plants inside the bellows of my large format camera, which create black fotogram-like outlines to echo a \u201emenetekel\u201c from the future.
\nI am applying this trans-dimensional experimental method within my project \u201esovereign fruits\u201c. I am going to photograph in a biotope near my hometown: a creek running through a forest valley, swampland, birds. Viewed superficially everything seems OK, but over the last years the habitat has changed enormously according to the impacts of global warming.
\nAs I am no longer able to believe in any truth embodied in journalistic documentary picture language, my artistic work results in these chaotic, but beautiful photographs, which whisper of a different thruth of their own…”<\/p>\n

THOMAS ZIKA – Sovereign Fruits
\nOpening Friday, 11 February, 2022, 7 p.m.
\nDuration: 12 February – 19 March, 2022<\/p>\n

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Statement by Thomas Zika: “…Before taking any photographs I am pretreating my analog 4\u00d75 inch film material with mushrooms, which pollute out their spores latently on the film sheets, creating beautiful, but chaotic lamella circles. Depending on humidity and ripeness I let this hidden process endure from hours to months. Serendipity is my friend and … <\/p>\n

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