Deposited in the furniture depot

In his photographic ambient project, Rudi Uran addresses the question of whether we humans establish empathy for objects and how. Do we just have a learned respectful attitude towards cultural heritage, or can we develop an intimate, emotional relationship with things?

As a juxtaposition to these questions, he placed a human figure, the ballerina, in the process of creating photographs and video. He "deposited" her with museum objects. With directed light (chiaroscuro) created an intimate interaction between model and object. Between the living and the inanimate.

The "discarded" body is no longer functional, nor is it an object. The "suspended" body, because of its non-functional pose, evokes different sensations in the observer, and inevitably the subject - the object - is also involved in it, the observer. The human figure becomes, in a sense, a medium for the creation of the observer's feeling (empathy) towards the object-object.

The project consists of various artistic interventions: setting up the exhibition in the corridor of the Partizan Cinema, placing the photographs on the objects themselves, which the photograph interprets (as a souvenir photograph that remains in the depot after the exhibition) and projecting the photographs in the furniture depot.

The creation of the project was accompanied by the screening of short trailers in public and virtual space. The project is complemented by the enclosed leaflet and catalogue, which will remain permanently in the furniture depot in a limited edition.