Łukasz Haruń (Poland)

Untitled (2008)

Programme: Miejska Galeria Sztuki 13 muz, plac Żołnierza Polskiego 2 Thursday (19.03) Start 19:13

Born in 1984.
I have been dealing with photography for seven years, but I have been consciously thinking about an image for four.
Through the means of photography I try to picture what I cannot notice. It lets me have a look at the reality that surrounds me from a new perspective. That is why I got interested in pinhole photography which lets me record what is invisible for an eye.
In 2008 I graduated from the Faculty of Photography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. I have taken part in a few group and individual exhibitions. An individual exhibition of pinhole photography Unobvious glance at the festival of visual arts Labyrinth (Kłodzko, October 2008), a group exhibition of Bachelor's works of the students of ASP in Poznań The unobvious'08 (Słodownia Starego Browaru, Poznań, September 2008), a group exhibition Infinity of illusions (Nowe Miasto, The Czech Republic, June 2008), a group exhibition Around a document at the festival of visual arts Konfrontacje 2008 (Gorzów Wielkopolski), a common work of Łukasz Haruń and Filip Kacapski The Space Between (May 2008), an individual exhibition without a title (Szczecin, February 2005)

Untitled

Reality perception is fully dependent on individual psychophysical features. Slight differences in the structure of eyes or inter-ocular distances cause dissimilarity in the reception of what we consider real. In the environment we live, we can see subjectively, individually – in a way that is inaccessible to others. These differences are very subtle. So subtle that we often do not realise their existence. Theoretically, however, great divergences from what we
think is the norm are possible.
With the use of a rotating diaphragm, which I use for simulating different ways of seeing, I wish to present the reality that surrounds us in a way we do not know. It lets us discover again the world we already know. Photos created thus are characterised by vast deformations of well-known shapes. Straight lines are changed into arcs, and circles into wavy lines. Set with the world we know from experience, the pictures seem to be unreal. Objects are significantly
metamorphosed which makes us realise that the way we perceive reality is only one of many possible ways, and such terms as space, shape or distance are relative and subjective.