Wednesday, October 27, 2010

I Love My Body Project



What is beauty?

How it changes through time?

How the idea of body, what you see in a mirror, what you see everyday influences the idea of beauty?

What is the perfect body, how this idea has changed and is consumed today?


All images © Patricia Burmicky

August 2010


Significant Surfaces:

Selections from the ICP Class of 2010


Curated by Marina Berio



"Images are significant surfaces. …This space and time peculiar to the image is none other than the world of magic, a world in which everything is repeated and in which everything participates in a significant context. [Images] are supposed to be maps but they turn into screens: instead of representing the world, they obscure it until human beings' lives finally become a function of the images they create -- human beings cease to decode the images and instead project them, still encoded, into the world 'out there,' which meanwhile itself becomes like an image - a context of scenes, of states of things."


- Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography






All images © Patricia Burmicky


Patricia Burmicky (Venezuela/Slovenia) uses scanning as an immediate, spontaneous, and flexible way to flatten time and experience into digital collages incorporating glimpses of a happy upbringing with occasional details of a more immediate present. Using both the storage containers and contents of her family’s photographic archive as raw material, she creates a visual framework for the contemplation of geographical and temporal distance, family resemblances, and life changes.

Familiar Subjects and Objects

A project I am working on.

About persons I know. Photographing them in their personal space. They become my subjects.

All images © Patricia Burmicky

and my subjects share with me objects, images, stories while I photograph them.

I am interested in those objects, photographs, and other things we keep through our lives and we take with us when we move to a new place.

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

introspection.

All images © Patricia Burmicky

Since I left home, I have been having continuous dreams and thoughts about my heritage, my family, and my culture.

collage of life.

All images © Patricia Burmicky


"'Everything is biographical,' Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is
made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget.
Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others
in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our
lives, at every border we cross."

Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero

a project that I am working on.
general studies seminar class, winter 2010.