Anele Zape

We often omit or forget much of the detail of our memories as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision. We get rid of those details considering them superfluous or encumbering and we are left with a series of mental key frames of great simplicity. Some of these series of photographs explore such themes as perception, representation and the unreliable nature of memory. The aim to recreate memories themselves, rather than to precisely represent the moment

SERIES:
Dublin.
Jellyfish.
Bulb.
City Lights.
Religion against paganism.
Bust.
Dunes.
Drawing with lights.

A combination of primitive photographic equipment and modern digital imaging processes is used to create these vibrant prints.
Anele Zape prints all photographs and they are strictly limited to specific editions.

DUBLIN.

Le grands ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux:
Levons-nous.
Ní uasal aon uasal ach sinne bheith íseal: Éirímis.
The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise

JELLYFISH.

When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm don’t mean nothing.
You go with the flow, you don’t stop.
Move like a jellyfish. Rhythm is nothing… You go with the flow you don’t stop
(Jack Johnson, “Bubbly toes”)

   

   

   

BULB.

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

     

     

   

CITY LIGHTS.

Light has a dual personality, both as a form of matter and a form of energy. It is electromagnetic radiation that we can see. Light can be reflected, scattered, transmitted, diffused, refracted, diffracted, polarized or absorbed. Ultimately, you are striving to control, manipulate and exploit it.

DUNES.

An optical effect that is sometimes seen at sea, in the desert, or over a hot pavement, that may have the appearance of a pool of water or a mirror in which distant objects are seen inverted, and that is caused by the bending or reflection of rays of light by a layer of heated air of varying density is called a mirage… But how do you call it when certain objects have the ability to vanish into the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which they are surrounded? I called it Dunes.

RELIGION AGAINST PAGANISM.

One who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods, in the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life is ultimately a follower of a polytheistic religion. The prescribed form or manner governing the words or actions for a ceremony, the commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance,the service and worship of God or the supernatural…

BUST.

Sculptured representations of the upper part of the human figure are a WONDERFUL widespread form of carving, modeling, or welding a three-dimensional object which does not disrupt a sense of rhythm between solid volumes and the spaces that surround them. They are ubiquitous..

DRAWING WITH LIGHTS.

”Drawing with lights (1)” has been an attempt to represent light as a living creature, as opposed to devoid of or abstaining from motion, trying to subdue or taking by force all its potential. Mixing several techniques in order to create movement using the strengh of artificial and natural light during night time, these prints aim to portray what the human eye can capture without noticing by simply having an indirect bearing, reference or aim.