Sara Salamon
plaster objects, photography
2026
collaborators: Hrvoje Spudić (darkroom and developement)
NOTHING BUT SMALL (working title) is conceived as a spatial installation of a fragmented image. The artist explores the themes of burnout and collective confusion, drawing on brief shared recitals across online landscapes, which she then records onto objects and paper using a specific technique based on photographic emulsions.
The technological aspect of the work involves the following process: under red darkroom light, liquid photographic emulsion is applied with a brush to objects and sheets of paper within the installation space. A video image is then projected and exposed from a single point using a digital projector. This process produces distorted visual materials.
On the conceptual level, still images become sharp while movement remains indistinct. The hypertrophy of vision emerges as a shared challenge. Such a spatial image resists our capacity for comprehension. Through the combination of digital light and an analog medium, the moving image is captured and fixed.
Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
