Objects, ongoing since 2015
(Part of the series "Folds II")
Direct exposure on folded analogue
photo paper, sizes variable, unique pieces (selection)
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In the “Folds II” series, Djourina expands the analogue pictorial space with a three-dimensional component: the irregularly rectangular photographic paper is folded, bent and/or creased before the different exposure phases. The resulting surface plasticity influences the formal composition of the works in a variety of layers, in which the edges on the one hand separate sharp colourful spaces from one another, but also become the subject of depiction themselves.
The physicality of the paper, translucent to a certain extent, breaks the light and casts its own shadows on itself, which vary from diffuse to sharp-edged impressions, depending on the position and intensity of exposure.
The overlapping of these different light influences creates structures that transfer their graphic appearance to the surrounding space through the broken outer contours, appearing flat and geometric from one perspective, plastic and painterly from the other.
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Image index
1 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2021, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper, unique piece, size variable;
Exhibition view: IBB Prize for Photography, in cooperation with Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft | Freundeskreis der UdK, 2016, exhibition photos: Marta Djourina
2 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2021, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper; studio view, photo: Marta Djourina
3 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2021, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper; studio view, photo: Marta Djourina;
Part of the collection of The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, USA
4 Exhibition view: KO_OP Sofia, 2021
5 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2020, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper;
Exhibition view: MAGIA NATURALIS - Bignia Wehrli, Marta Djourina, L, 2020, organised by Boyan Manchev and Vesselina Sarieva, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, exhibition photo: Maria Dzhelebova
6 - 11 Untitled (Doppelbelichtung), 2015, direct exposure on custom analogue photo paper (with green background), unique pieces, sizes variable
12, 14 Exhibition view: Candela, organised by Artspring Berlin, Pavillon am Milchhof, 2022, exhibition photos: CHROMA
13 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2020, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper;
Exhibition views: DIS/APEAR, curated by Sarah Frost, EMOP - European Month of Photography, 2016, exhibition photo: Marta Djourina
Objects, ongoing since 2015
(Part of the series "Folds II")
Direct exposure on folded analogue
photo paper, sizes variable, unique pieces (selection)
1
In the “Folds II” series, Djourina expands the analogue pictorial space with a three-dimensional component: the irregularly rectangular photographic paper is folded, bent and/or creased before the different exposure phases. The resulting surface plasticity influences the formal composition of the works in a variety of layers, in which the edges on the one hand separate sharp colourful spaces from one another, but also become the subject of depiction themselves.
The physicality of the paper, translucent to a certain extent, breaks the light and casts its own shadows on itself, which vary from diffuse to sharp-edged impressions, depending on the position and intensity of exposure.
The overlapping of these different light influences creates structures that transfer their graphic appearance to the surrounding space through the broken outer contours, appearing flat and geometric from one perspective, plastic and painterly from the other.
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Image index
1 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2021, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper, unique piece, size variable;
Exhibition view: IBB Prize for Photography, in cooperation with Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft | Freundeskreis der UdK, 2016, exhibition photos: Marta Djourina
2 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2021, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper; studio view, photo: Marta Djourina
3 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2021, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper; studio view, photo: Marta Djourina;
Part of the collection of The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, USA
4 Exhibition view: KO_OP Sofia, 2021
5 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2020, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper;
Exhibition view: MAGIA NATURALIS - Bignia Wehrli, Marta Djourina, L, 2020, organised by Boyan Manchev and Vesselina Sarieva, Sariev Gallery, Plovdiv, exhibition photo: Maria Dzhelebova
6 - 11 Untitled (Doppelbelichtung), 2015, direct exposure on custom analogue photo paper (with green background), unique pieces, sizes variable
12, 14 Exhibition view: Candela, organised by Artspring Berlin, Pavillon am Milchhof, 2022, exhibition photos: CHROMA
13 Untitled (from the series “Folds I”), 2020, direct exposure on folded analogue photo paper;
Exhibition views: DIS/APEAR, curated by Sarah Frost, EMOP - European Month of Photography, 2016, exhibition photo: Marta Djourina