135 IMAGES / 96 PAGES / 23 X 31 CM / 50 COPIES / SELF-PUBLISHED / ISBN 978-961-07-1079-0 / 40 EUR

The book developed from material I created for bachelor’s thesis at ALUO in 2021 while researching exhibitions and their relation to photography. I chose to research the topic as art exhibitions seemed strange and weird to me. I didn’t understand them fully and felt like I was missing the core cause of this phenomenon. Most of my questions were answered by topics of historical development of exhibitions, institutions, art market and curators. I was also interested in the factors that affect the visitor’s experience and the connection between photography and exhibition – photographed exhibitions and exhibited photographs. Photography documents, makes history, increases value, relaxes the mind, poses questions and so on! It acts in a similar way to an art exhibition. It shows, exposes, focuses, takes elements from the ordinary and isolates them from the outside world. It creates experiences and invites viewers to explore its space. It shows the beauty and even makes things appear more beautiful as they would appear to the passing eye in the real world. In open, empty, lonely public spaces, in a way similar to museums and galleries, I found viewers, spaces that felt good and installations that changed through time. The last act was an exhibition of the first copy of the book. Photographs of exhibition are used for the front and back book covers. Exhibition has a broader meaning to photographers. Everything in the world is exhibited in a way, waiting to be made history and to be taken out of its context by the frame of a photograph. And then exhibited. And photographed again.