Claus Dicovskiy
“How strange. A disaster occurs and still a man notices a picture.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
As photographers we obsess over the idea of the “moment”. And I emphasize the word, “idea”. There might be a moment, in the non-photographic use of the word, in which one might be without a camera, or not exactly feel up to taking a picture, and subsequently, the photographer begins to worry about the “moment” that should be captured. Naturally, one reaches for their iPhone, but is the handheld device apt enough to capture that “moment”? For the photographer, most likely not. But the truth is there is no “moment”, but moments that make up the mise-en-place of life.
Further Removed is an exercise in observation; an ode to the unfolding of time in response to the limits of human perception. The works on display demonstrate a range of elemental and anthropogenic phenomena—the reflection of light; the tying of a boat line; the kneading of dough; the windows into a construction site. On the surface of the photograph these processes are materialized as either illusion or truth, or perhaps a mixture of the two. As Plato put forward in book X of Republic, according to Socrates, art is mimetic by nature and is third removed from the truth of the Forms. This body of work then further problematizes the aesthetic inquiry by representing a schism between the removing and imitative nature of photography and the material existence of the photograph.
Contact information
email:cdicovskiy@gmail.com
Instagram: @claus_dicovskiy
Web: clausdicovskiy.com
Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
As photographers we obsess over the idea of the “moment”. And I emphasize the word, “idea”. There might be a moment, in the non-photographic use of the word, in which one might be without a camera, or not exactly feel up to taking a picture, and subsequently, the photographer begins to worry about the “moment” that should be captured. Naturally, one reaches for their iPhone, but is the handheld device apt enough to capture that “moment”? For the photographer, most likely not. But the truth is there is no “moment”, but moments that make up the mise-en-place of life.
Further Removed is an exercise in observation; an ode to the unfolding of time in response to the limits of human perception. The works on display demonstrate a range of elemental and anthropogenic phenomena—the reflection of light; the tying of a boat line; the kneading of dough; the windows into a construction site. On the surface of the photograph these processes are materialized as either illusion or truth, or perhaps a mixture of the two. As Plato put forward in book X of Republic, according to Socrates, art is mimetic by nature and is third removed from the truth of the Forms. This body of work then further problematizes the aesthetic inquiry by representing a schism between the removing and imitative nature of photography and the material existence of the photograph.
Contact information
email:cdicovskiy@gmail.com
Instagram: @claus_dicovskiy
Web: clausdicovskiy.com