Lublin

Photograph taken by A/Z inside Lublin National Museum (Muzeum Lubelskie), available with other photographs and drawings at Fine Art America. While there I took many other photographs  somewhere between the IBB Grand Hotel Lublinianka and Zamek Lubelski, and also inside the Dominican church.

The second frame (with a Rosalind Krauss' quotation about Roger Calois) was made with photographs I took at a temporary exhibition called "Against War," from Majdanek's State Museum.

"[for Caillois] the animal's camouflage does not serve its life, because it occurs in the realm of vision, whereas animal hunting takes place in the medium of smell. Mimicry is not adaptive behaviour; instead it is a peculiarly psychotic yielding to the call of space. It is a failure to maintain the boundaries between inside and outside, figure and ground... Caillois compares this to the experience of schizophrenics. 'Space seems for these dispossessed souls to be a devouring force'" (Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious).

See also:

- Warszawa;

- Musée de Cluny;

- en profane: Orsay & Centre Pompidou;

- l'oeuvre &/ou le vrai oeil;

- Netherlands (Amsterdam, Utrecht);