Cindy Konits: This Room Will Survive Me, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Superb multi-layered existential documentary

Cindy Konits began photographing herself with an obsolete professional instant camera and expired film after termination of a long psychoanalysis. The camera's features facilitated slow-shutter meditative exposures in direct sunlight and shadow between and within rooms and surrounding landscape. She discovered in her work representations of introspective 'psychic space' in architecture beyond the analytic room. Approaching the threshold of a room she is 'me', a separate entity from the room. Being 'in' the room, however, is exactly the moment the room disappears. Cindy is inside and outside at the same time as perception of touch, sound, and scent of objects in the room fuses her present self with past memory and experience.

These images created with light flooding her body along wall and object contours suggest the expanse of interior self in a room. Through architecture we find ourselves in relation to space and time that is otherwise limitless and endless. Leading architectural theorists and practitioners inform this work, including renowned Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa who said "...I thought that architecture was the buildings out there in the world. I have gradually learned that architecture is a mediation between the world and our minds".

Architecture is more than an engagement with visual aesthetics. This Room Will Survive Me invites viewers to recognize architecture as a stage for choreographed interaction with our personal histories and each other. The main text essay will be written by Mark Sealy, the highly respected British curator, author, photo historian and director of Autograph ABP in London. Sealy, a longtime collaborator with FotoFest, was also the lead curator of the 2020 FotoFest Biennial African Cosmologies. Additional short essays will be done by FotoFest co-founder Wendy Watriss and FotoFest Executive Director Steven Evans.