Kíra Krász - ‘Thought after Taught’
In search of the origins of personal understanding and by engaging with the forms of the once-learned and since-forgotten, I encourage my mind to wander and to question. I draw inspiration from the images of my everyday life accompanied by dreams, paintings, readings from philosophers, or by the sound of music.
All this becomes unified in the form of my photographs when printed onto materials used at school: yellow sheets of exercise books, textbooks, an atlas and various other educational material. With passing years, and through re-evaluating and revising this knowledge, I manage to layer and combine my experience with the previously learned.
Like water upon rocks, the knowledge that we assimilate is in a process of continual erasure, paling and fading due to the selective process of our memory. Through dismembering books of theory, I am also remembering the principles of algebra, geometry, biology and other fields of science, understanding them from the perspective of intuitive human experience.
With the arrangements of simple lines and circles, and the harmony of shape and content, I position the images upon their chosen canvas. Through the invention of flawed measurements, I explore the abstract pleasures of our rational minds.
