But I soon realized that I prefer working on my own, because I’m not very good at communicating with others – I’m quite shy.” Rather than working with a team of make-up artists, actors, PAs and camera operators, Geibl shifted modes to the solitude of her medium format camera.
She explains, “I actually first studied film theory and history, and I wanted to be a director. This film-still aesthetic is a direct result of Geibl’s initial training as a filmmaker. Many of the images in Sisyphus are fabricated scenarios, and possess an intense, cinematic atmosphere that makes their drama even more appealing. I loved the idea of capturing an entire year in one single photograph.” It was created with an exposure of three minutes, which is why you can see the shift of the sun. “I asked a woman working at the planetarium to start a timer and simulate one year on Earth in three minutes, so this picture is a still image of that entire year. For example, one image, saturated in green and blue hues, is a photograph of a simulation of an entire year on Earth. While some images hint at a human presence, depicting their hands working through equations or interacting with particular substances, most of the images place human invention at centre stage, so that our manmade tools act as the protagonists in the story.
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The presence of human beings is insinuated, but never made fully obvious by incorporating the faces or full bodies within the environments she constructs.
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Geibl explores our reliance on science through a series of images that reveal our fascination with scientific objects – inanimate tools – that we use to help us determine major truths about human nature. “But also, every time we understand something new, we have to start all over again, because it presents us with a new set of questions.” “ Sisyphus is really just about humanity, because every time we discover something new, we think we get closer to understanding how the whole world operates and functions,” Geibl explains. Sisyphus is a photographic project that commentates on our incessant obsession with science – a discourse that regularly opens up new questions rather than conclusive answers – a hydra with multiplying heads that cannot ever be fully defeated or conquered. He is forced to roll a boulder up a steep hill, only to have it roll back down again when it nears the top, trapping him in an endless cycle of labor for all eternity.įor photographer Kata Geibl, this cyclical myth acts as a metaphor for the topic explored in her series of the same name. In the original legend, Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra, is punished by the gods for his selfish deception. The legend of Sisyphus is one of those myths that has come to pervade Greek mythology, recognizable as a story mirrored in all facets of pop culture, from comics to television to contemporary art.
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