The series of iPhone photos was inspired by my previous series of photos the Breakup.

iPhones

In this set of photos, I bring objects from my home setting (a paper glass, a plate, a food) with neutrality and clarity as if my gaze is an automatic process aimed at capturing the essence of things – freed from personal connotations and the superstructures of meaning – and translating their relationship with reality. Isolated on an empty table from the chaotic context of the present, these objects are photographed and operated in a minimal way to ensure that my subjective view does not interfere with the representation by modifying the objective nature of the elements photographed. I shifted towards a reality where the objects assert their presence in terms of their lack of vitality and their purely iconic value. 

Table

To what extent the outcome of our life depends on our own willpower, tenacity, and how much is instead determined by the fact that we are born in a specific country? 

Non-European Plants 

The series of photographs “The breakup” was created as a result of an effort to easier overcome the loss of a certain person and make a breakup between the past and the present.

Jelena Kostic