Tone Stojko: The Body in Play

"Bodies disappear by blurring boundaries of a physical form. This kind of abstraction brings de-subjectivisation: all social and cultural representations are forced to take flight. The body is only allegorically shown in the interplay of light and shadow. Body silhouettes from the photographs look like pretty spectres. Although the tendency to show the naked female body as an aesthetic form is very obvious, Stojko does not frame it in a symmetrical composition because the aspect of symmetry decomposition is ever present. Blurred female bodies express their presence through mediated frozen moments of movement. The blurring of a body in an image can also be an allusion to the many obscurities of female bodies in past and present social realities. Blurring and capturing bodies in motion mutually take place along the continuum of presence – disappearance – representation."  (Dr Mojca Puncer, from the text in the catalogue)