FRANEK AMMER - UNPHOTOGRAPHABLE FLYING OBJECT
art installation + UV sensitive publication
A red circle surrounding magnified, grainy or pixeled section of the sky on the photograph, in the middle there is a black, oval shape. Location clearly suggests that this is a flying object. Unidentified? Definition convenient for both; those who are rather sceptical towards the idea of aliens visiting our planet and the rest who feed their imagination on the UFO’s myth. Irrespective of which side we decide to take, we cannot clearly classify these images as false. Perhaps other civilisations are using advanced techniques of camouflage, or existence of the UFO is a result of our over-interpretation of poor quality of the photographic ‘evidences’. Unphotographable Flying Object is the response to the problem of the photographic UFO’s representation, resulting from the limitations of the medium. At the end, the two dimensional photograph cannot be considered as a proof, however it could become a catalyst for our imagination and intellectual speculations.
Zine publication: Printed in only few copies, experimental publication – zine Unphotographable Flying Object accompanies the piece. It shows that the created spacecraft is in fact impossible to capture with a camera. UV lamp is included with each copy to help to get sight of the photographed object.
Franek Ammer (1988). Graduate in photography at the Lodz Film School. Artist, curator and organizer of many art events. For several years associated with the TIFF Festival in Wroclaw. A member of the collective responsible for creating Fotofestiwal in Lodz. As a curator and organizer, he mainly deals with photobooks, popularizing them in Poland and introducing aspects related to editing and sequencing of photographs. He is also a co-founder of the Przestrzeń Robocza (Working Space) - a place dedicated to artists talks, workshops and experimental work in visual arts and multimedia. He creates photo-objects or objects-photographs that address the issues of representation and imagination. The diploma series ‘Exclusion’ was nominated for the Poznan Photo Diploma Award 2015. His works were presented at individual exhibitions in Miejsce przy Miejscu gallery in Wroclaw (The Valley, 2015) and Mała Czarna gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (In the Beginning Was the Head, 2017), among others.
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