Preanalogue Postdigital. Andrij Bojarov

Nearly a hundred works - single photographs and elaborate sets of images - make up Andrij Bojarov’s solo exhibition. Arranged into unexpected, often surprising configurations, the photographs ask how the medium works as something continually transformed, with an image’s meaning turning out to depend on the context in which it is placed.

The Museum of Photography in Krakow on the exhibition (translated from the Polish original):

What do we see when images are set into new, unexpected arrangements and detached from their original functions and authors? What happens to their meaning when they begin to operate in new contexts? Andrij Bojarov’s exhibition “Preanalogue Postdigital. Solo Exhibition / Isikunäitus” poses questions about photography as a medium in constant transformation.

The exhibition, comprising nearly 100 objects, consists of both single photographs and elaborate sets of images. Combined into unexpected, often surprising arrangements, they create new contexts and meanings. Bojarov draws on works by various authors - both known and anonymous - film stills, reproductions, archival materials and photocopies sourced from a range of places. By transforming them, he shows that the meaning of an image is not fixed but depends on the context in which it is placed.

Andrij Bojarov - a visual artist, independent curator and researcher of contemporary art - consistently reflects in his work on the status of the image in contemporary culture. The artist describes his works as “secondary reflections” and “copies of copies.” They do not depict reality directly but its traces: fragments, remnants, memories and visual impressions.

What to expect

The exhibition gathers nearly a hundred objects - photographs, film stills, reproductions, archival materials and photocopies by various authors, known and anonymous. Bojarov transforms and recombines them to build new contexts, presenting photography as a medium of secondary reflections and “copies of copies” in which an image’s meaning is never final.

Tickets, opening hours, and current details are on the Museum of Photography in Krakow website.

Museum profile: Museum of Photography in Krakow (MuFo).