The series consists of 80 works. Each work is a pair (diptych). Two completely different plan. Technically: Pictures are close their plastic language isalike, this is done consciously (large depth of field comes from the matrix in my camera). Therefore, in the picture the plans can be linked which give a sense of kinship. The picture that are a pair, show at first glance elements of similar forms .
I take each subjectt as a clearly perceived element – the archetype. Nowadays, the average viewer has a developed subconscious, and he thinks in archetypes. I take items from the real environment as actors, but through photography turn them into heroes. At this level, I understand that a photograph as a movie has drama and directing. In this visual production, I will organize a new type of conflict by connecting heroes.
In my work , I use Kuleshov theory of editing: the junction of two different plans. He hypothesized that the mapping of adjacent frames in a sequence can not only create a total content, but even changed the understanding of the contents of the first frame. As an experiment, he mounted a close up of the actor I. Mozzhukhina with an indifferent expression on his face separately with three different frames. These frames were a plate with hot soup , a young girl laying in a coffin and a child gaily playing with a toy . As a result after the projection all viewers said they saw on the screen three different images I. Mozzhukhina. in the first the face was that of a hungry man. The second – a man torn by the loss of a loved one. And in the third the face of a man delighted by watching a child’s play.
I did not recreate the Kuleshov Effect, I use it as a known mechanism known , I try to create my own confrontation of images , externally very similar, but not related to each other before. It is the dramaturgical and staging mechanism that I organize. The conflict produced is solved by the mind of the viewer giving rise to a third plan. Plan in which the properties and quality of the same object depicted in the picture above, is transferred to another object, shown in the lower picture, and interact with them , creating a new synthetic image – a metaphor. This is a new perception.
Zhenya Mironov
