Ea Vasko – Reviews
Ea Vasko´s artworks are dealing with the perception of space and the
different ways of looking. She aims to remove all the easily
recognizable visual elements from her photographs, so that the
perception of the photographed object becomes uneasy. By doing this she
examines viewing as an act and also how the way of seeing can be
affected through the photograph. She often mixes real and staged
situations together by using so called real places and scale models as
the objects of her photographs.
Usually the proportions of the
space in a photograph are clear. But what happens in the viewers mind
when the necessary items needed for the perception of space are left
out from the picture? Through these ideas Ea Vasko is concentrating to
observe the city space, trying to investigate the controlled
environment we are living in. The recognizable places have disappeared
from her photographs; instead, the pictures are getting closer of
depicting the cityscape and its characteristics universally.
Not
being able to see could be interpreted as a symbol of not knowing, of
not being in control. In the series Defining Darkness Vasko has
photographed four different themes of trying to control a dark
cityspace. These four themes are about four different types of
darkness, from the chaos of artificial light in a big city to the
dimness of a private bedroom.
