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Shadow Theatre
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Roger Ballen's The Theatre of Apparitions and Andrej Lamut's Persona share a curious approach to the darkest parts of the human psyche.
Ballenesque, apart from describing Ballen's distinguishable style, announces something intangible, nondefinable, exciting, unnerving and dark, which permeates all of Ballen’s work. It addresses the uncomfortable ambivalence which the spectator cannot comprehend through sight alone.
On the other hand, Lamut's human figure is depicted as a shadow, a reflection, a distortion, and a dispersed body. The intangibility of the body can be understood as a metaphor for the Self, which resides beneath the image that a person presents to the world.
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Roger BallenEmbryonic, 2009arhivski pigmentni tisk / archival pigment print61 x 61 cmedicija 3/6 / edition 3/6Series: IGRA PRIKAZNI / THE THEATRE OF APPARITIONSpodpisana in datirana / signed and datedDuring the fifty years of his artistic practice, Roger Ballen, an American photographer naturalized in Johannesburg, South Africa, developed a recognizable photographic style which acquired the term Ballenesque. The elements of Ballenesque were constructed dynamically, shifting and crystalizing through the various phases of his creative process, which is a crossbreed between painting, drawing, installation, theatre, performance and photography.
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Andrej LamutPersona VIII, 2023ink jet tisk na papirju Fibre Gloss 300 / ink jet print on Fibre Gloss 300 paper20 x 25 cm; edicija / edition 1/3 + 1 AP
48 x 60 cm; edicija / edition 1/3 + 1 APSeries: PERSONApodpisana in datirana / signed and dated
In his latest series, Andrej Lamut delves into psychologically charged content. The title of the series, Persona, refers to a concept from the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. Persona (Latin for mask) is a part of human personality which the individual manifests in society. It is a means of social survival and necessary for communicating with the external world, allowing individuals to play different roles and adapt to social demands. At the same time, Jung warns that the persona can dominate the ego, the conscious Self, or disintegrate, leading to internal chaos.
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ANDREJ LAMUT, PERSONA II, 2023ink jet print on White Satin 270 g paper25 x 25 cm, 60 x 60 cmEdition of 3 + 1 APSeries: Personasigned and dated on verso
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ANDREJ LAMUT, PERSONA IV, 2023ink jet print on White Satin 270 g paper25 x 18 cm, 55 x 40 cmEdition of 3 + 1 APSeries: Personasigned and dated on verso
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ANDREJ LAMUT, PERSONA XVII, 2023ink jet print on White Satin 270 g paper25 x 25 cm, 60 x 60 cmEdition of 3 + 1 APSeries: PERSONAsigned and dated on verso
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Shadow Theatre: Roger Ballen & Andrej Lamut
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