A group of unintended exposures by artist and photographer Alexis Vasilikos (beforehand featured right here). Based mostly in Athens, Vasilikos is deeply influenced by Jap mysticism and drawn to the meditative and transcendental dimensions of image-making. His sequence, “Involuntary Pictures,” emerged over the previous 5 years and entails “a special mode of seeing.” That’s, the outcomes of unintended faucets and stray gestures on his cell gadget. Or, maybe, the gadget’s personal autonomous “dreaming”:
“With out conventional framing or material, the ensuing images kind tender abstractions of sunshine, texture, and movement, resembling Coloration Area work greater than standard documentary photographs. They exist in a liminal area between aware creation and mechanical statement—images with no photographer, imaginative and prescient with out deliberate intention.”
Talking to broader conversations round know-how, artwork, and authorship, the sequence explores questions of company and notion in an period more and more formed by automation and likelihood. Vasilikos attracts on the Taoist precept of wu wei—easy motion—reflecting on the aesthetic of accidents and the function of the artist as each participant and witness.
