CEAAC, STRASBOURG (FR)
Currently, Ján works with old slides that he manually transforms to give them a new meaning and visuals. The partial removal of emulsion creates room for new, other interpretation of images captured on slide film. The results are expressive, painting-like works, thematically based on the feelings of the author but with a widely shared understanding. Visual experience and multiple interpretations of the images are the factors that make the current work of Ján Šipöcz appealing.
The photographic medium makes it possible to work on multiple themes at once. You can follow
your intuition and take a picture and then, one year later, give it a meaning. The exposition is an
assembly of multiple independent images. Reconstruction of dreams. Pictures of the mind that got out.
Hairy water. Memories break into thousands of droplets and every one of them speeds off into a
different direction . . . after a while they collide into a single mass again and flow on . . . A dream.
When I fall asleep I stop perceiving time and connections, the mind does whatever it pleases. It
assembles stories without following rules. Night transport. Night bus does not take its usual
prescribed route but takes a turn at will, drives around the whole city, country, world. It stops at
strange but also familiar places. Sometimes it follows the same route. Night after night.
When I wake up I cannot fall asleep again. I just stare at the ceiling where, even through window
shutters, I can see the lights of passing cars. One, two, five, twelve, thirty . . . it is half past three.
There are memories of the previous day in my head: I was at a cathedral, six popes stood there,
two of them headless. When the rays of light hit the water surface, half of the Sun was still behind the house.
