More Than an Image Less Than an Object

More Than an Image Less Than an Object

Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland

July 28 — August 18, 2017

Alexander Ugay’s show attempts to reflect on the notion of an archive and on the ideas onmemory keeping and storing but also reading and deciphering. The artist has executed a site-specific piece whose components are photographs and objectswith camera obscura mechanisms hiding inside them. Inspired by the archives of Galeria Labirynt, the fate of the Lublinianka football stadium, Słowackiegohousing project and the intersection of Lubartowska and Świętoduska streets, hehas investigated the correlations between an object and an image, the presentand history, a document of a past and its designate. Ugay proposes a concept ofan archive whose perception connects the phenomenological (sensory) cognitionwith dialectical (intellectual) understanding.