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Durdija Vucinic
Michele Gerace
James Johnson-Perkins
A lens produces an image of the world which can be captured in a photograph by the combination of a camera and light sensitive material such as photographic film or a digital image sensor. The photograph is then rendered by an artist to create a photographic picture.
Neuroaesthetics is a subdiscipline of evolutionary biology that explores the nature of beauty by using brain imaging techniques, demonstrated by the work of Semir Zeki, whose research includes 'The Neurobiology of Love' and 'The Neural Basis of Romantic Love' published in 2007 and 2000 respectively.
In 2025, Yuto Ogawa introduced their independent thoughts on consciousness, memory, artificial intelligence, and the future: stating that the present is based on 'probabilistic semantic convergence' from the future, as opposed to deterministic causality.
For this exhibition, I was seeking pictures that attempt to reconcile these three themes visually or contextually, as well as pictures that explore or allude to the following:
Ancestry, 'race', and representation.
Personal histories, psycho-geographies, and personal associations.
Landscapes, seascapes, and nature conservation.
The Instagram hivemind, the illusion of nostalgia, and cultural propaganda.
Socioeconomic disparities in contemporary photo-sharing practises.
Light, golden hour, sunrise, and sunset.
The accepted medium was digital photography.
Durdija Vucinic
"Durdija Vucinic is a composer and musicologist based in New York City whose practice moves between music for moving image, sound-based video, and experimental composition — often blurring the line between score, soundscape, and environment. She holds an MA in Musicology from the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she began her career as a music editor and content creator at one of Europe’s oldest national radio stations. Her work explores memory and sonic narrative, using originally composed music to engage with time, place, and personal archive. Vucinic’s pieces navigate the tension between structure and spontaneity, inviting the audience to find order in chaos and complete the narrative loop. Her work has been presented across the U.S. and Europe, in Hong Kong, and South Korea."
Durdija Vucinic. 2019. Wrapped.
Durdija Vucinic. 2019. Wrapped.
"Six skinned carcasses hang in a butcher’s window in Istanbul, wrapped in plastic, each with a single red rose placed where the tail used to be. My mother’s reflection passes faintly across the glass.
It wasn’t the death itself, but the way it was dressed. As if adding a flower could soften it, make it easier to take in. But the roses don’t hide anything. If anything, they make it harder to look away.
How often violence is dressed like this—made to look acceptable?! How easily it becomes part of the everyday."
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Michele Gerace
"Michele Gerace was born in 2000 in Polistena, Calabria, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. He attended the Higher Institute of Graphics and Communication, where he graduated with top marks. Having completed this path, he moved to Rome in 2018, where he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts with the Painting course. The following year, at the age of 19, he became a teacher of multimedia languages, a role he still holds today. In 2023, he graduated in Painting with top marks, and then enrolled in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA, graduating in 2025."
Michele Gerace. 2025. Weave.
"In Weave, the sea provides a background for two trees, which seem to be suspended like threads stretched in a fragile balance, held together by a thin spider's web running through the central space. The image is born from the encounter between strength and delicacy: the tension of the trees framing the horizon and the ephemeral lightness of the spider suspended in the void.
This work reflects on the way we observe the world: through structures, relationships, tensions, subtle links; hence the title Weave, which recalls the word waves."
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Michele Gerace. 2023. Compagnia.
Michele Gerace. 2023. Compagnia.
"Photo reflecting the period of isolation experienced during the lockdown."
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James Johnson-Perkins
"James Johnson-Perkins is a British award-winning artist who in recent times has lived and worked in Turkey, USA, Slovakia, Italy, Nepal, Russia, Oman, China and the UK. Johnson-Perkins has exhibited in important and leading venues in Europe, Asia and North America, Including: Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria, Nord Art, Budelsdorf, Germany, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, The Royal College of Art, London, UK, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, The Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China, Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Toyota City, Japan, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, The Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, USA and The Arts Student League, New York, USA.
In 2021 he won the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize, President's Award. He was the Runner up for the Alpine Fellowship, Visual Arts Prize and he was an award winner for the Art Observatory Digital Art Program, Ukraine/UK. He was also a finalist for the 'Airland 4.0 | Nature, Technology, Energy' Competition and he was shortlisted for the Passpartout Photo Prize, Italy.
In 2024 he was the artist in residence at Le Maison De Barbara, Ayvalik, Turkey and in 2021, Johnson-Perkins was involved with two digital residencies at: The Belgrave Arts Studio, Serbia and Correlation Contemporary, Peru and his work was recently shown at: Ely Centre of Contemporary Art, USA, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea, The Rotterdam Photo Festival, Holland, Florence Contemporary Gallery, Italy, Austral Festival Internacional de Performance Art de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ars Electronica, Austria and Bekarei Video Art Space, Berlin, and he was also featured in BOSS Magazine, China, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine, Spain and Aerogramme Magazine, USA and Landescape Magazine."
James Johnson-Perkins. 2024. Maps, Signs and Symbols, After Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Istanbul/Turkey. 7.34m x 1.88m.
"This image is influenced by the Turkish artist Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid and has the primary goal to create something that has the same lyrical and abstract qualities of her artwork ‘Break of the Atom and Vegetal Life, 1962.' This is attempted using collected, maps, signs and symbols that have been overlaid onto her image, which has then been stretched over Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square and this captured Gigapan image, allows for a huge and dense panoramic work. "
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James Johnson-Perkins. 2025. Berlin AI-Ching, After John Cage, Berlin/Germany.
4.67m x 2m.
"This image combines elements of John Cage’s ideology, the I Ching, and the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. It explores the intersection of chance, technology, and culture, mirroring Cage's use of randomness in composition. The I Ching’s ancient wisdom contrasts with the modern, mechanized world represented by characters created using AI based on the I-chings Hexagrams and the image is set in a gigapan image of this infamous stadium steeped in a dark hisory. This work aims to challenge notions of control and fate, much like Cage’s compositions, while also reflecting the complex relationship between the past, present, and future."
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