// Cevapsız Sorular: Snjezana Josipovic’in Fotoğrafları

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2005 yılından beri fotoğrafçı olarak çalışan Snjezana Josipovic, 1982 yılında Zagreb’te (Hırvatistan) doğdu. Unmittelbar grubunun üyesi olan Josipovic’in işleri çok sayıda grup sergisi ve solo sergide gösterildi; Bulb, Neo Collective ve Polli gibi yayınlarda yer aldı.

Josipovic’in işleri portre, peyzaj ve iç mekan kavramlarını ele alır; bunları özgün betimleme yöntemleri ve teknik ustalıkla yeniden tanımlar. Fotoğraflarında yarattığı mekan, salt iç ve dış mekan kavramları ile okunamaz. Boş odalar, ormanlar, denizler ve şehirler bir samimiyet duygusu, fotoğrafçının deyimiyle ‘sessiz bir diyalog’, yaratır. Özgül bir niyetin ürünü olan bu tutum, Baudrillard’cı bir ‘katmanlaşmadan’ ziyade görünürde olmayanı açığa çıkarma arzusudur. Josipovic, işleri aracılığıyla yeniden keşfettiği katmanları değişik teşhir düzeylerine taşır. Fotoğrafçı, gerçeği yalnızca bu farklı katmanlarla keşfetmez; aynı zamanda ‘gerçeklik algımız dönüşüme açıktır’ [1] düşüncesiyle beraber okur. Josipovic ışıkla, görüntünün keskinliğiyle, karanlık ve aydınlık derinlikleriyle oynarken bu öğeleri, yarattığı imgelerin içinde akışkan olarak kullanır.

‘Sessiz diyalog’ izleyicinin katılımını talep eder. Josipovic, her şeyi olduğu gibi göstermekten kaçınarak bu isteğini vurgular. Bu, fotoğrafçının dünyaya verdiği cevap olarak okunabilir. Kelimelerin şiddetli kudretine başvurmaktan kaçınan Josipovic izleyiciyi kendi dünyasına bu şekilde davet eder. Diptik formatındaki çalışmaları, kiliselerdeki benzerlerini çağrıştırdığı gibi Andy Warhol’un son dönem çalışmalarına paralel olarak da okunabilir. Gösterilen bireylerin özel hayatlarının içine girmemize izin veren bu çalışmalar modern çağın ikizleri olarak da tanımlanabilir. Bu kadın kimdir, ve bitişik çerçevedeki imgeye olan gizemli bağlantısı nedir? Josipovic bu soruları yanıtlamayı reddeder; aksine, bizi düşünmeye ve kendi hikayelerimizi yaratmamıza teşvik eder.

Josipovic’in portre çalışmaları, bireylerin fotoğraf çekildiği anda nasıl değiştiği gerçeğinin ve başka biri olma güdüsünün altını çizer. Bu, ‘sessiz diyalog’ kavramının farklı bir göstergesidir. Bu, Josipovic’in söylemidir. Josipovic’in işlerinde, kelimelerin şiddetinden rahatsız olan sanatçının yerine fotoğraf makinesi dile gelir. Yapılan göndermeler ihtiyari değildir; ve Josipovic’in deyimiyle ‘fotoğraf hayatındaki her şey ile yakın ilişki içindedir.’ [2] Yaşamımızın soyutlamalarıyla flört eden Josipovic, bu tavrını imgeleri yok etmeyle veya dönüşen nesneleri bilerek gölgelemesiyle ortaya koyar.

Emily Phillips, Ocak 2009 (Tercüme: Özge Ersoy)

Hazırlayan:  Károly Aliotti

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“Snjezana Josipovic-Photographer”

Snjezana Josipovic, photographer, was born in 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia, and has actively been taking photographs since 2005. In addition to being a member of the group ‘Unmittelbar’, she has been in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and her work has been published in such publications as Bulb, Neo Collective and Polli. Josipovic’s work addresses notions of the portrait, landscape and interiors, and through imagery and technique, redefines them. Space transverses both the interior and exterior. Empty rooms, the woods, seas, and cities take on an intimacy, or what Josipovic likes to call “silent dialogue”. It is a purposeful view, but rather than a Baudrillardan “layering over”, Josipovic steps forward to “peel back” revealing what is underneath, while simultaneously allowing and pushing layers to different levels of exposure. Josipovic not only explores the Real through her layering, but also the notion that “our perception of reality is transformative.” [1] She plays with light, edges, depths of darkness and light, interspersing them as if they were fluid within the image.

“Silent dialogue” demands participation by the viewer, and Josipovic achieves this by creating images which do not reveal everything. This is how she responds to the world. Rather than relying on the violence of words, Josipovic uses the medium of photography as her invitation to the world she sees. Her diptychs recall not only the early diptychs often found in churches, but also later the works of Andy Warhol. These are our modern-day twins, and we are allowed into their private world. Who is this woman and what is the mystery of the connection to the image in the adjacent frame? Questions that Josipvoic refuses to answer, but instead invites us to ponder and participate in creating our own stories.

In Josipovic’s portraiture works, she focuses on capturing how a person changes and tries to become someone else while in the act of picture taking. Again, the notion of a “silent dialogue”. This is Josipovic’s discourse. Uncomfortable with the violence of words, the camera speaks for her. References are not arbitrary, and for Josipovic, “photography is connected to everything in my life”. [2] She plays with the abstraction of our contemporary world through the disappearance or purposeful obscuring of objects through their transformation.


[1] Rampant Reality 1950-2000 From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons Hyper Metal, Kunsthaus Zuerich/Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2000.

[2] www.zimmer117.de

Emily Phillips, January 2009.

Editor: Károly Aliotti

Please click here for the photographer’s website.

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  1. i love her photos.. each photo tells a story.. her holga-pictures are amazing..

    Posted by serdar | Ocak 30, 2009, 10:03
  2. pleasure to watch… This is the feeling İ had by looking at Snjezana’s photos in the web that my friend Karoly had introduced to me. İn a world stuffed with images and a time that everybody is shooting with his digital cameras or phone, İ use to go trough photo catalogues and websites with bored face and empty eyes. Suppose İ’m not the only one…..
    Snjezanas images made me to stop what İ was doing, seat and look at them, going trough again and again… not in amazement but with great joy and inspiration and the believe that trough artist like her the art of the photography will never be profaned and denominated.

    Posted by İliya Asenov | Şubat 2, 2009, 10:10
  3. Its like looking through her soul which becomes my soul..Each photo took me through her thoughts and then back to mine..great work!!

    Posted by mehru | Şubat 2, 2009, 14:31
  4. Enticing piece to provocative and mesmerizing art. I’m simply captivated.

    Posted by Lori | Şubat 3, 2009, 17:05
  5. već odavno sam rekao da sam veliki fan snježaninih fotografija. od momenta kad smo se befrendali na spaceu..
    odličan rad. opipljiv. stvaran. ne znam kako to opisati al kao da ti i dostavi dio zraka i atmosfere sa uzete fotografije.
    njena stranice mie dodana u bookmark.
    inspirativno.jako.
    pozdrav :)

    Posted by Game Boy | Şubat 4, 2009, 04:11
  6. as she can deliver the air and the feeling, like you were there when she took a photo. so real, yet so distant. like forgotten times. powerful. kinda sad.
    i love her work from a day when i found her on space.
    go snježana :)
    pozdrav

    Posted by Game Boy | Şubat 4, 2009, 04:22
  7. I am a filmmaker and i get the feeling of single shots from different stories(movies) at first sight. Its just like there is a beginning of its story somewhere in time and the rest afterwards.
    thats why her photos are powerful and dynamic , not stable. very inspirational..
    congratulations!

    Posted by Bulent Doruker | Şubat 4, 2009, 11:08
  8. As the people above, i found Josipovic’s work intriguing. But two other works stood out to me too. The Yasar Canpolat, Empty and Olga Migliaressi with the potraits of new yorkians. I’m better at comparing how different works make me respond than i am at just analyzing something on its own.

    Canpolats made me feel something, like when you remember a feeling that has no distinct sound, event or time placement, it just exists in your sensory memory bank, like the feeling of a vague memory like climbing a tree or laying in grass.

    Migliaressi’s work is definite and dominated by people and movement. I enjoyed it because there was nothing much to disassemble. When i see the portraits i get the same rush i got when first walking through the streets of such a bustling city, fascinated by the people and the way they were and how they looked. And when you stare at them they stare back, just like in the photos.

    So compared to those works i found Josipovic’s work far more thought provoking, almost unsettling really. Just like the article described with the “silent dialogue” and the undercurrent of violence. I liked it because it was everyday things presented in an unordinary way which is often the essence of art and beauty and intrigue. There was ugly elegance to her work if that makes any sense, becasue like was said in the article she refuses to answer the mysteries she presents in her work, making it uncomfortable but wonderful at the same time.

    Posted by Marianthi | Mart 2, 2009, 19:11


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