Jowita Mormul "Impermanence"

Photography is considered as evidence that the recorded reality occurred in front of the camera. Perversely, however, the photographic trace of the past becomes evidence of the impermanence of situations, objects and events that have occurred and been photographed. The photo just taken shows a fragment of the past to which there is no return. In every split of time a person and his environment are subject to changes, and each subsequent registration documents these changes, consolidates what was just a moment ago, but is gone, has become part of the past and is now absent, and does not exist anymore. The recording itself is a registration of changes occurring in the "from-to" time: from the opening of the shutter to its closing. With longer exposure times, changes are often noticeable, and moving objects "disappear" from the image surface, even though they have also been subject to registration. With very short times, changes can be imperceptible, yet they are an integral part of the record. The durability and immutability of photos as material objects - negatives, prints, prints, etc., seems debatable. The light that brings images to life turns out to be deadly for their materialized representation. Photos undergo oxidation processes and - even the best and most precisely archived - slowly change under the influence of humidity, temperature, chemical composition of the surrounding space and air. Photography "immortalizes" the impermanence and changeability of reality, and at the same time, as a material record, it changes itself.

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Jowita Bogna Mormul - habilitated doctor of arts in the field of film arts (The State College of Film Arts in Television and Theater in Łódź, 2018). He creates in the field of visual arts. Professor at the UJK at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. He lectures on photography, new media, multimedia and image analysis. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Faculty of Painting, 1997; Faculty of Graphic Arts, 1999). Doctor of Arts in the field of film arts in the field of photography (National College of Film Arts in Television and Theater in Łódź, 2008). Scholarship holder Hanna Rudzka-Cybisowa (1996) and the Ministry of Culture and Arts (1996/1997). Member of the Association of Polish Artists (1998) and the Association of Polish Artists Photographers (2001). Her works have been presented at many individual and collective exhibitions in the country and abroad (among others in Luxembourg, Rome, Vilnius, Skopje, Strasbourg, Budapest, Ohio).