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JOvAn ŠuMKOvSKi seem to come from some as if phosphorescing some latent
galvanization laboratory. The light. A process similar to that
nighT viSiOn effect and the images we see observed in some species of fish
an inTervieW By through the device correspond whose bones smoulder in the
ViktoriJa VaseVa with the widespread view of the infinite darkness of extreme
diMeska contemporary illuminative and depths.
solarized environment of the To what degree does the
49. Biennale Di veneziA
is your night vision simply a Balkans and the region, as the day world’s epidermis become a
night vision device producing a in this part of the world is space for the release of
reflection of an illusion which unfortunately nearly always negative energy, culminating in
acts as a mediator between shorter than the night. the farcical shrinkage of
our view of the world and What is that which permits arrogant globalism of the
reality as information, or is it a the night vision device to offer Olympic symbol (the five
recapitulation of power, of more than your Light echo? is rings)?
collective and individual this the courage to look into A green fluorescent
consciousness? the essence of things to a morphography dominates in the
In the spatial installation degree when the searcher faces space where the installation is set
entitled Night Vision the moment his own eyes or faces and also on the image obtained
through the night vision device.
This malignant monochromatic
atmosphere is certainly a
manifestation of quietly coded
negative energy. The world seems
to be getting weary of rotating
about its axis and has flooded,
imprisoned or frozen some of its
micro-elements. Only one of its
many symbols - the Olympic
symbol - pulsates on the water’s
surface and reminds us that not
everything has been played out to
the end, won, defeated or filled
with happiness. At the beginning
of the third millennium, the world
as a whole cannot have calm seas
and sail in the vacuum of
prosperity and peace. It is still the
arena of interests of the gloomiest
type, accompanied as a rule by
demonstrations of force and
uncontrolled energy.
And what about the interior
of the prisms?
of peeping through the night something else? The prisms are transparent and
vision device is actually the In a technical sense, for the first transmit light echoes. They are
moment when the viewer is faced time in his existence Man becomes designed like lanterns which
with a two-dimensional image. a complete hunter. He can freely illuminate not only the everyday
He receives inverse values in this see and hunt in darkness, a objects found in their interior, but
image: dark is transformed into privilege of the animals. The also project their reflections on the
light, dense into thin. It is a scene hunter is now an active viewer, room walls. During the process of
in which there is no insolation, a but in his aimless roaming across enclosing these objects in the
view in which there is no the two-dimensional image, predefined transparent volume of
perspective, a relief in which there without any concentration, the lanterns, two groups of
is no gravitation. The viewer is without a focus, the searcher fragments, different in
involved in a silent event with no inevitably confronts his own eyes. significance, were preferred:
consequences. The world looks The image does not correspond to Frozen Energy (potency) -
glacial through the night vision contemporary events, the objects objects with potential energy,
device, and the objects it reveals on the earth’s surface seem febrile, combustible fuels, parts of electric
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