title: Beyond the Threshold of the Visible: The Photographic Objects of Alexander Ugay
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metadata.value: Fomenko, Andrey N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-02T15:25:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-02T15:25:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.value: Fomenko, Andrey. “Beyond the Threshold of the Visible: The Photographic Objects of Alexander Ugay”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 11, no. 2 (2021): 263–287.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2021.206
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33407
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metadata.value: One of the features of photography is the fact that the process of formation of the image
  is invisible — in contrast to painting. It is as if photography, which makes the world more visible, evades visual control. The transition to digital techniques partly reduces this “dark
  side” of photography, but it also allows us to make better sense of analogous photography and
  reflect on its dual nature. Alexander Ugay, a contemporary artist from Kazakhstan, who in
  his practice shifts from photography as an image to photography as an object, substance and
  process, is an example of such a reflection; the thematization of the nature of the medium is
  combined in his practice with the theme of memory and oblivion. In his Objects of Memory
  (2013), he photographed the back of pictures from several archives of the Stalinist camps —
  the procedure that emphasizes the material and ephemeral character of the prints. The iconic
  aspect is almost entirely excluded from Time Capsule (2011 — present time) that reveals the
  self-destructive nature of the act of taking picture. The series of “obscuratons” (2017–2018) —
  complex pinhole cameras with a lot of holes — is a preliminary result of this reflection of
  photographic dialectics of the visible and the invisible. Every obscuraton functions alternately
  as a devise for creating an image (equivalent to human vision) and as an object integrated in
  some environment side by side with the other things. The polemics with an idea of total visual
  control can be read here; the machines of vision prove to be machines of blindness. The general
  impression is that the sole purpose of the emphasis on physical and chemical processes, the
  use of the particular iconographic resources and references to historical realities have a single
  goal in Ugay’s projects: the dissolution of meanings and disintegration of forms.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexander Ugay
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: photography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contemporary art
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art of Kazakhstan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: camera obscura
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: obscuraton
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: panopticism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-photography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neo-avant-garde
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: entropy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Beyond the Threshold of the Visible: The Photographic Objects of Alexander Ugay
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metadata.value: Article
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