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Vineta Kaulaca
My work is mostly about perception: the way we look at the world, building up an image of the whole from different fragments.
Fragments based on our emotional relationships to, and intellectual experiences of, an image. We rely, unawares, on the role of time and distance in this process of seeing. I am particularly interested in applying, to other media, my findings as a painter; I am interested in the synergy between drawing, photography, cinematography and installation. Taking photos is a way of taking notes; it marks a point of reference for further exploration by other means. I use photos – capturing the elusiveness of a look and indicating pauses – to document the trajectory of the observing eye, cast around, meeting the world. My work aims to illustrate the ambiguity and relativity of perception. One of the most important areas for me in painting – a very time-consuming process in itself – is the simultaneous presence of reality and imagination, which allows the painting to be viewed as record or repository of time. Painting examines the ordinary act of looking, extended through close scrutiny and yielding a process somewhere between aligning memory and evoking presence. Time acts differently in photography, every photograph contains information of that-which-has-been. A new...
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