INI as an open studio for work with the photographic image and its spatial potential. Photography as a complex intermedia platform and dynamic interface. During her two-month residency, Lucia Sceranková will address the shift from photography to performance or sculptural work with an image. She will research photography as a medium, which doesn't mean to hide new reality under its surface, and rather becomes a permeable membrane. 

15th April Lucia Sceranková in conversation with Piotr Sikora

I am surrounded by different dimensions, which cannot be seen. Or rather, I can’t see them. Each one represents not only an unspecified outer space, a layer that overwraps our reality, but also a universe full of objects and images. Yes, I cannot see that either. Those are copies of the copies of objects we know and afterimages of the afterimages of images produced by us (or should I say our smartphones) every day.

What if I try to understand illusion not as a way to trick me but rather as a unique moment when I can really see how one dimension slips into another? Even then I won’t be able to fully embrace what is it and how could I measure it, yet I could confirm that illusion is just another door of perception.

In Lucia’s work, we have been tricked over and over again with the very same kind of joke. The gentle play of objects and images. The illusion we would like to believe in. The riddles of gestures and semiotics. What is very particular about it is that this all doesn’t go without a smile or laughter.