Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Photography / Fine Art
My location: Bratislava, Slovakia
First Name: Mária
Last Name: Šimová
University / College: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
Course / Program: Photography and New Media Bachelor
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Photography / Fine Art
My Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
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The project is about self-knowledge. I compare myself to photographic paper - I am the sensitive layer. I am a sensitive layer for which light is an external influence that sensitizes me, and chemical processes are reactions that work in me. I’m changing myself. I work in the darkroom because it takes time. The act of developing, during which I select individual images from the negative archive, set the values, do tests, develop and fix, and then hold the finished image in my hand, I metaphorically compare to the selection of thoughts from the archive of mind. I sensitize them, go through and process them again. I connect the developed and fixed with the ever-evolving. Internal with external. That, what is fixed in me with that, what is constantly changing, developing, and shifting. It’s a process.