Windows Should be White and Clean, 2024
Photo series
150 x 120 x 5 cm
Archival inkjet print mounted on 2mm bubond, framed in solid
spalted beech wood frame, Art glass UV 70%
In the photographic series Windows Should Be White and Clean (2024), I connect the supposed last words of the architect on his deathbed to the dying trees in Tivoli Park that were cut down during my residency in the city. The series shows an abstracted version of the white windows of Plečnik’s Zacherlhaus (Vienna, 1903−1905), photographed on the freshly exposed cross-sections of the tree trunks in the city park. The windows in the series are derived from the construction drawings for the Zacherlhaus that was yet to be built. Johann Zacherl (1814−1888), Plečnik’s client for Zacherlhaus, made his fortune with Zacherlin: an insecticide that promised the total eradication of insects and fungi.
The trees in the Tivoli Park in Ljubljana are the homes of unique fungi and insects that inhabit the specific types of wood that grow there. Many felled trees are left on the forest floor because they offer a unique habitat to rare beetle species, such as the desert beetle, that can only survive in the trunks of dead, fallen, or felled trees.
The moon-shaped segments that are sawn and taken out of the treetrunks cause the shadow of the windows to bend into strange angles. They give each image’s serially photographed window a different, alienating, sculptural new appearance. The works investigate the mysterious quality of the architect's last words and test the human geometry of architecture against non-human, organic, and cyclical nature. The final photos are framed in wood from spalted beech trees. Spalting in wood is the process in which graphic, black drawings, or other discolorations appear treetrunks because of mycelia (mushrooms) that mark the beginning of rot. By photographing these slowly decaying tree trunks in the decomposition process, I captured the fascinating lines, patterns, and colors before they slowly return to the forest floor from which they arose.
Installation view To Decide Where the Shadow Falls - Plečnik House, Ljubljana (SI)
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Installation view Annotations - RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana (SI)
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Photo series
150 x 120 x 5 cm
Archival inkjet print mounted on 2mm bubond, framed in solid
spalted beech wood frame, Art glass UV 70%
In the photographic series Windows Should Be White and Clean (2024), I connect the supposed last words of the architect on his deathbed to the dying trees in Tivoli Park that were cut down during my residency in the city. The series shows an abstracted version of the white windows of Plečnik’s Zacherlhaus (Vienna, 1903−1905), photographed on the freshly exposed cross-sections of the tree trunks in the city park. The windows in the series are derived from the construction drawings for the Zacherlhaus that was yet to be built. Johann Zacherl (1814−1888), Plečnik’s client for Zacherlhaus, made his fortune with Zacherlin: an insecticide that promised the total eradication of insects and fungi.
The trees in the Tivoli Park in Ljubljana are the homes of unique fungi and insects that inhabit the specific types of wood that grow there. Many felled trees are left on the forest floor because they offer a unique habitat to rare beetle species, such as the desert beetle, that can only survive in the trunks of dead, fallen, or felled trees.
The moon-shaped segments that are sawn and taken out of the treetrunks cause the shadow of the windows to bend into strange angles. They give each image’s serially photographed window a different, alienating, sculptural new appearance. The works investigate the mysterious quality of the architect's last words and test the human geometry of architecture against non-human, organic, and cyclical nature. The final photos are framed in wood from spalted beech trees. Spalting in wood is the process in which graphic, black drawings, or other discolorations appear treetrunks because of mycelia (mushrooms) that mark the beginning of rot. By photographing these slowly decaying tree trunks in the decomposition process, I captured the fascinating lines, patterns, and colors before they slowly return to the forest floor from which they arose.
Installation view To Decide Where the Shadow Falls - Plečnik House, Ljubljana (SI)
Installation view Annotations - RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana (SI)
Windows Should Be White and Clean (2023) was part of the solo exhibition
To Decide Where the Shadow Falls, Plečnik House, Ljubljana (SI)
18.10.24 - 26.01.25
Annotations, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana (SI)
24.10.24 - 21.12.24
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To Decide Where the Shadow Falls, Plečnik House, Ljubljana (SI)
18.10.24 - 26.01.25
Annotations, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana (SI)
24.10.24 - 21.12.24
