Uroš Abram: Body. Made in Me

The Body. Made in Me exhibition tackles the „irony of the industrially produced commodities for mass consumption, marked with the tag of origin. It emphasizes the uniqueness and unrepeatability of the image whose creation Abram personalized to the extreme limit and at the same time managed to avoid the aura of Art, the mythisation of creativity; the image of the body even in my own body remains the product of pure optics in combination with chemistry. This has been achieved by Abram improvising the camera obscura in his mouth thus changing his very mouth into a photographic device which we might want to call camera oralis. The traces if incidences left by the process on the little piece of photosensitive paper became the constitutive parts of the image,“ as observed by Andrej Smrekar, PhD, who contributed opening introduction and essay accompanying the catalogue.

Photo: Matej Jordan