referenceless photography
photography, text, 1998 - 2003
referenceless photography 002-98 Herwig Turk
referenceless, installation view kunstverein kaernten

"referenceless" is about the impossibility of withdrawing meaning from an image. (...). The pictures represent abstract paradigms of knowledge, suprematic forms of portraying scientific knowledge, opening new avenues that allowsfor the questioning of its proceedings.There is a clear deliberation to exclude the author from the creative process. Nonetheless, Turk's photographs require the observer to confirm their meaning. The intrinsic intervention of the observer, which in science is an instrumental part of the scientific process, is required to certify that paradigm..”