The Album of the Family - Remembrance #6

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  The Album of The Family | 2015 - 2016

The theme of ‘The Album of the Family’ series is the emphasis on the bonds of family, the innermost confidential unit, the significance of interdependence and the joy offered by these bonds. The family is the basis of the private sphere and the basic unit of our society that offers multiple approaches. The work consists of still and motion pictures merged into a single unit dealing with the topic of family situations and relationships. As a result of the minimalism in visual representation, the families stand on their own, torn out of the continuum of time and space, without social reference or environmental narrative. The exposure of a photograph and video recording per se are gestures of extraction, the exposition of a certain period of time. The abiding, memorable moments, either positive or negative, often remain in our mind as in-depth, slow-motion visual memories. The simplicity of the images and the gesture of slowing movements down - in case of the motion pictures - give the possibility of thorough observation of details, relations and reactions that we rarely have in real life.