Andriy Boyarov, 1990, Ball and Circle from the Ball and Circle series, silver print, 17 × 18 cm

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Works in the series: 6

Dimensions: 17 cm x 18 cm

Category: Photography

Technique: silver gelatin print, analog photography, analog black and white photography

Materials: photo paper, black and white photographs

Created: 1990

Place of creation: Tallinn, Estonia

Location: Andriy Boyarov’s archive

Description of the work

Creating this series, the artist composed images from various magazines into a circular shape. By overlaying several layers of images, the artist achieved an almost abstract form (the same principle was used in the series “Turn On and Off,” where the final shape was a square). Andriy Boyarov continued to explore the development and acquisition of new image forms. In this series, as in earlier ones, the focus is on the picture or image. The image, repeatedly re-photographed and reproduced, loses its original meaning and form, acquiring characteristics of a puzzle or rebus that cannot be solved. Thus, entirely realistic and narrative images, layering over one another, transform into abstraction. Some details still prompt the viewer toward a certain story, but the author left them not as clues but rather to increase confusion. In the series “Ball and Circle,” the author leaves on the surface a plot where dogs chase a ball, which is the key to understanding the form chosen by the author.

Researcher’s comment

Re-photographing a printed or non-printed image by the author is a kind of act of appropriation. The author associates this series with the concept of “Picture generation”