NOTHING PERSONAL
1996 - 2006
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors . . . Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote and had the decency of not publishing. Nothing, nothing, my friend; what I have told you: I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . Can you imagine that I not even know the date of my death?
Horhe Luis Borges
The main object of the works from Nothing Personal is my body and its shadow. These works are documentation of peculiar performances. Why “Nothing Personal”, if visual content of photographs indicates subjective approach? Title of the collection emphasizes subjective interpretation of concepts, meanings, and visual images in the mind of a viewer. Observing one and the same images viewers interpret them building on their unique experience. On the one hand, works are subjective in their visual message. On the other hand, this subjectivity has meaning assigned by a viewer. Actually, these works represent universal symbol, code, and message in western visual art that are revealed in interpretation of representation of body and artist’s behavior. I highlight their two main meanings: the first, subjective satisfaction from photographing and photographs, and the second, ironical conceptual and contextual link between image and its interpretation in consciousness of a viewer.
© Alnis Stakle
photographs
Archival pigment ink prints on rag paper 27cmx40cm - 100cmx100cm (ed 12)
1996 - 2006
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors . . . Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote and had the decency of not publishing. Nothing, nothing, my friend; what I have told you: I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . Can you imagine that I not even know the date of my death?
Horhe Luis Borges
The main object of the works from Nothing Personal is my body and its shadow. These works are documentation of peculiar performances. Why “Nothing Personal”, if visual content of photographs indicates subjective approach? Title of the collection emphasizes subjective interpretation of concepts, meanings, and visual images in the mind of a viewer. Observing one and the same images viewers interpret them building on their unique experience. On the one hand, works are subjective in their visual message. On the other hand, this subjectivity has meaning assigned by a viewer. Actually, these works represent universal symbol, code, and message in western visual art that are revealed in interpretation of representation of body and artist’s behavior. I highlight their two main meanings: the first, subjective satisfaction from photographing and photographs, and the second, ironical conceptual and contextual link between image and its interpretation in consciousness of a viewer.
© Alnis Stakle
photographs
Archival pigment ink prints on rag paper 27cmx40cm - 100cmx100cm (ed 12)