THE BOOK OF LAND: SPRING
Helga Goran
Prsten Gallery
April 20 – May 8

In my artistic practice I am focusing on the urban landscape, and photographing unnoticeable details of everyday sceneries. I find that recording everyday aspects of visual experience transforms ordinary sights into occasions to discover the aesthetic qualities of unlikely subjects. I observe how the accidental comes to make sense in the contexts where it occurs. For me, historical realities reveal themselves in the most inconspicuous places, where the photographer is just another passer-by.

the book of land: spring is a multimedia exhibition consisting of video projections and a sound recording. Video projections are made od still and moving images. Sound is recorded on locations where still and moving images are taken. Still and moving images are recorded from a ground level in the midst of location vegetation. This way a unique atmosphere is achieved in the recorded material. When this recorded material is enlarged on gallery walls during projections, change of perception occurs and a surreal ambient feel is achieved. In this surreal ambient the spectators, who are usually watching the vegetation from a bird perspective or walking on it, are diminished to the visitors of an empirically unknown scenery.

Helga Goran

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1968 in Pula, Croatia, Helga Goran has been living and working in New Zealand since 1996. She has been a finalist in Anthony Harper Award 2010 and has exhibited paintings, drawings and photographs with galleries in New Zealand, Serbia and Croatia. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Belgrade, a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Design & Arts College of New Zealand and WCAD, and a Master of Fine Art degree (Photography) from Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. Since 2013 she is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists of Istria (HDLU Istra). Helga is currently living and working in Pula, Croatia and Belgrade, Serbia.

 

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