Boris Eldagsen & Tomasz Lazar: Black Mirror
© Boris Eldagsen & Tomasz Lazar
As an artist / photographer what do you question through your work and why?
“I question the nature of the human mind and its major driving forces.”
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Black Mirror
What can trigger fear?
Analysing scare techniques since 2017, Boris Eldagsen and Tomasz Lazar realised, that the more undefined a threat or a threatening situation might be, the easier it is to project your own fears onto it. A psychological mechanism that resembles the ‘Black Mirror’, a reflective black surface of obsidian, water or oil, that was used by ancient Greeks, Hebrew, Persian and Mayan oracles as a projection space.
Today we know, that if we gaze long enough at a pitch-black surface, our confused sensory-deprived brain projects images and colours, reflections of memories and emotions. Or as Nietzsche would term it: ‘When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Eldagsen & Lazar use this technique to create a photographic equivalent of the ‘Black Mirror’.
They set off the viewers’ imagination into their very own unconscious mind, unleashing memories and fears.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” H.P.Lovecraft
Boris Eldagsen & Thomasz Lazar : https://www.eldagsen.com AND http://tomaszlazar.pl
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About Tomasz Lazar and Boris Eldagsen
TOMASZ LAZAR (Poland)
Born 1985 in Szczecin, Poland. An independent photographer, a graduate of the West Pomeranian University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. Winner of photography contests in Poland and abroad (e.g. World Press Photo, POY, CHIPP, Sony World Photography Award). Mostly interested in long-term projects that focuses on society and human’s mind.
BORIS ELDAGSEN (Germany)
Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen (*1970) studied photography, visual arts, conceptual art and intermedia at the Art Academies of Mainz and Prague and fine art the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication in Hyderabad, India. In addition, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz.
His work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals. Since 2004, Boris has lectured internationally at universities and art academies, and given workshops at institutions.
Boris Eldagsen & Thomasz Lazar : https://www.eldagsen.com AND http://tomaszlazar.pl
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