PASSING A WINDOW, I GLANCED INTO IT: Atit Sornsongkram

Passing a window, I glanced into it, a photography exhibition by Atit Sornsongkram, which tries to find the possibilities of photography media In how it can surpass the two dimensional planes under its own rules.

 

Atit is interested in visualisation, the creation of images, and creating images that represent image in the minds. He questions the status of photography; what it truly is, and what its functions are, by having the perception of his audiences to fulfill his work.

 

Nowadays, when people can access photography in a short moment, Atit, on the contrary, creates his art slowly and carefully. Working in front of the camera, Atit handpicks materials and stages them like how a sculptor works. Then, he uses digital methods in an attempt to reach the nearest perfection as it can, while still retains its own purity. And for himself, he considers his works as another form of clean and simple poetry, only that it requires sensory perception and time to consider and fully embrace it.

 

Atit believes that photography can lead its audiences to the space within the picture as if the photograph has a world within it. However, in reality, a photograph is merely a piece of paper that its producer arranges.

 

In the exhibition Passing a window, I glanced into it, Atit questions ‘The image of an image’ again. However, this time, it is to return to an emergence of images that is the simplest and the most natural, which is reflection. Since ancient time, reflection would occur on the surface of any liquid with only mechanic of light. For this series, the artist chooses ‘Mirror’ as the main element, being an object that is able to create an image on its own. After that comes experiments in manipulating images as he wants; that is to question the planes and the depth dimension in terms of surface – image – inside the image which the two dimensional photograph can make them appear.