Sleep of sanity

The world is full of information, symbols and signs. In our daily lives we attempt to interpret them correctly. Everything has a determined purpose and influence upon us.

In the series „sleep of sanity“ Julian Jankovic places great value that his images deviate from reality. There is no right or wrong. We can only presume what what we see in his pictures. Beyond that, we may disregard the search for an indication of reality and address our own fiction. Through misleading captions that Julian Jankovic adds to his pictures our interpretation is stimulated.

He selects his motifs intuitively. They are of less importance than the images itself, which come into existence using his experimental techniques in black and white.

With his style of photography he depicts the motifs in such a way so that they lose their connection with reality and are no longer clear to the viewer. The resulting images barely resemble the everyday objects that he photographed. A shopping cart thus emerges as a building and a lantern becomes a dancer.

If one looks at the pictures one after the other, this reflection becomes a dance with the evening. But we do not spin around in this dance - we spread our arms and throw our heads back.