Vukašin Delević
Sometimes it is enough to just go into the depths of your being and there is a great chance to find a source of inspiration.
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There are photographers whose primary goal is to document something, pass it on to others, or preserve[...]
There are photographers whose primary goal is to document something, pass it on to others, or preserve it for future generations. Others delve into abstractions, aiming at pure emotion, stripped of any superfluous meaning. And there is something third ... when reality merges with inner vision and feelings, so it outgrows itself ...
The cycle “Time” by Vukasin Delević unequivocally belongs to the third group, although, conditionally speaking, it consists of two types of photographs. One is landscapes, mostly fog and sky, which might be collectively called the search for lost time, because the black-and-white technique, while playing with light, leads us to a completely timeless space, in many ways phantasmagoric. From the sun that blows through the clouds, turbulent waters, and even more turbulent vistas, intersected by some equally unreal building, the symbolism of the flow of time, but also the overlap of time and space, inevitably arouses strong emotions.
However, this emotional dimension is further emphasized by that other group of photographs, which in this flow of thought could be defined as rediscovered time. Images of people, along with playing with multiple exposures, create the impression of constant movement, constant commotion, and turmoil of humanity, again displaced somewhere completely outside the tangible reality. Precisely because of that elusiveness, the thought of infinity, and thus pure, irreducible freedom, flows from the entire series of photographs. Whether it is a metaphor of a shell of thought, spirit, or pure unadulterated feelings, in the end, it doesn’t matter - it will be different for each of us - but what matters is the feeling that awakens in the observer, the feeling of strength and dynamics, constant movement forward and of a gentle, somewhat hazy optimism.
The creativity behind the “Time” series is inevitably a hint… By the fact that no photograph provides definitive answers, but it is thought-provoking and allows us to interpret the many layers of meaning that can be woven into it, just as the people on it elusive and multiple in photographs, Vukasin’s world represents a unique combination of artistic and intimate, lost and rediscovered time.
The cycle “Time” by Vukasin Delević unequivocally belongs to the third group, although, conditionally speaking, it consists of two types of photographs. One is landscapes, mostly fog and sky, which might be collectively called the search for lost time, because the black-and-white technique, while playing with light, leads us to a completely timeless space, in many ways phantasmagoric. From the sun that blows through the clouds, turbulent waters, and even more turbulent vistas, intersected by some equally unreal building, the symbolism of the flow of time, but also the overlap of time and space, inevitably arouses strong emotions.
However, this emotional dimension is further emphasized by that other group of photographs, which in this flow of thought could be defined as rediscovered time. Images of people, along with playing with multiple exposures, create the impression of constant movement, constant commotion, and turmoil of humanity, again displaced somewhere completely outside the tangible reality. Precisely because of that elusiveness, the thought of infinity, and thus pure, irreducible freedom, flows from the entire series of photographs. Whether it is a metaphor of a shell of thought, spirit, or pure unadulterated feelings, in the end, it doesn’t matter - it will be different for each of us - but what matters is the feeling that awakens in the observer, the feeling of strength and dynamics, constant movement forward and of a gentle, somewhat hazy optimism.
The creativity behind the “Time” series is inevitably a hint… By the fact that no photograph provides definitive answers, but it is thought-provoking and allows us to interpret the many layers of meaning that can be woven into it, just as the people on it elusive and multiple in photographs, Vukasin’s world represents a unique combination of artistic and intimate, lost and rediscovered time.
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