Description
In a series of analog photographs and frottages titled Barricades, Mia Paller uses material and form to reflect on the specific place and time of the barricades – concrete pyramids from the Ten- Day War for Slovenia in 1991. The artist used a camera she built herself to combine drawing and photographs, in such a way that both media co- incide at the moment of exposure of the film. The work process is guided by intuition, and so the photographs become a unique kind of projection, representing the intersection between the index- icality of photography and what the artist places on them previously through drawings, imprinting traces and graphic interventions. In this way, she interprets the site she is photographing before it is documented, and the final photographs con- dense the time and process of creating the work. By choosing barricades as the object of her inter- est, the artist looks back in time, but only in order to reinterpret them and treat them as formal rem- nants of a period she herself did not experience.