Why Photography Worked

“The idea of photography like this seems to me closer to the idea of painting where reality is presented before us in a diffracted way. I am very pleased to partake in his endeavours of technique, labour, craft, and a way of seeing which reminds us of the limits of reason, culture, thought, and contemporary politics as we see from the point of view of mortality of bodies and languages, as Paul Valery, a prominent critic observes in his essay, Crisis of the Mind— “We later civilizations... we too know that we are mortal.” Valery’s line, dipped in poignancy reminds us of the limits of our cultural logic as we too, who pride ourselves in walking over the earth, mutilating it, will pass into oblivion like the past cultures and civilizations, leaving nothing but the faint memory of bones feeding a termite and a jasmine plant.”
- Riyas Komu, Artist & Curator