Images of Experience
Photographs, 2017 – , various formats
Project deals with aesthetic concept of visual perception as a sensual experience. I investigate the process of undergoing an experience on the part of both the artist and the spectator. Each of the images is hinting at some of the phenomenon or visual archetype. I analyze the influence of environments of perception and the effects of (neuro-)physical processes in the eye and brain. Is creating of a work of art meaningful without incorporating of previous experiences of the artist? In the current era of image (and never-ending stream of visual media), understanding of those processes is more important than ever. The main references come from the writings of John Dewey, John Berger and neuro-scientists such as Ladislav Kesner. Work is a part of my current PhD art-based research. » more
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Photography is an outstanding medium for providing possibilities to access, create and reform human’s experiences. Despite its descriptive accuracy, photography is at the same time strongly ambiguous. Decoding of its meaning and content always depends on the context and previous experience of the onlooker. “For Pavel, limits of our perceptions represent the key topic. Over years, he continuously researches it, but always allowing new outcomes and possibilities.” (Terezie Foldynová, 2019)
Island of Islands
Photographs, 2017 – 2019, 100 x 70cm
If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. To pass freely through open doors, it is necessary to respect the fact that they have solid frames. This principle, by which the old professor had lived, is simply a requisite of the sense of reality. But if there is a sense of reality, and no one will doubt that it has its justifications for existing, then there must also be something we can call a sense of possibility. Whoever has it does not say, for instance: Here this or that has happened, will happen, must happen; but he invents: Here this or that might, could, or ought to happen. If he is told that something is the way it is, he will think: Well, it could probably just as well be otherwise. So the sense of possibility could be defined outright as the ability to conceive of everything there might be just as well, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not. (Robert Musil: The Man Without Qualities, 1942)
