Blue Hideouts
Lukáš Opekar
Blue Tarp – a hyperobject that cannot be escaped. One of the symbols of the current state of the world. It appears in both urban and natural landscapes, surprising me with each new incarnation. It conceals the treasures of gardeners, unfinished works of builders, or slowly decomposes among the leaves in the forest.
Lukáš Opekar focuses on photography and moving images, which he transforms into virtual environments, hand-printed graphics, and cyanotypes. He explores the limits of photography using methods of computer vision, but also through algae growth or drawing. Using random processes he discovers extraordinary worlds that hide behind the commonly perceived reality. He cultivates images from fragments, and the result that emerges from this substrate is largely a surprise. A long-term theme of his work is the exploration of the intermingling of living and non-living beings over time. He studied at Faculty of Art and Design Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Ústí nad Labem and he lives and works in Prague.
Imprint
I take a graphic approach to photography, working with the method of scanning. It is fascinating to me because of the possibility of looking at objects outside the usual time and space, which allows me using of a computer vision techniques. This results in images unencumbered by our perspective and time constraints. The work should convey the wonder of something that is not directly visible and cannot be directly photographed. I am also interested in the fact that computer processed texture is an illusion of objective observation. In places of uncertainty, the machine fabulates and the backdrop is revealed by various glitches and imperfections. The output of my work are moving images (mostly looped 360° panoramas of tree trunks) and long-format prints. Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/lukasopekar