Krisztina Bóka's works balance on the precarious, blurred border between sculpture and photography. The photographic negatives disappear, as they are replaced by the hidden interior space and reflective exterior surface of the original object itself. Her process uses both the technique of the pinhole camera (the ancestor of photography), and the photogram, a genre familiar from avant-garde art of the 1920s, on light-sensitive paper. To reveal the closed anatomical apparatus, the artist chose a fundamental theorem in mathematics. Equal in edges, dihedrals and dihedral angles, She transforms the five existing spatial regular solids - the tetrahedron, the hexahedron (also known as the cube), the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron - into a self-reflecting 'dark chamber', so that the original object and the copy made of it are identical. The examination through this contemplative process reflects itself as an uroboros, a snake biting its own tail, in order to reject the contemporary habit of viewing images at the TikTok spin level.

STRESS RELIEF 2022

photogram, 120 pieces

115 X 190 cm

I popped each bubble one by one on an 11x15 cm bubble wrap. A photogram was taken at each popping. I want to contrast the momentary joy of action with the analog image making, which is significantly prolonged in time.

AIRPLANES 2020

photogram

100 x 90 cm

I made airplanes out of lightsensitive papers and I shine a light on them from different angles. After that I flattened out the origamis and then I developed the pictures. The result is a pseudo artwork which is based on the airplanes’ shapes. 

VISUAL SCOPES 2023

RC photo papaer, iron, magnet

icosahedron, dodecahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, tetrahedron

My diploma work explores the relationship between space and form. Drawing on the noble forms and timeless geometries of Platonic solids, I explore the complex themes of outside and inside, space and form, the real object and its photograph. I am curious to explore the almost always present inner, hidden space enclosed by hollow sculptures, and I am also intrigued by the effect of the pinhole camera, the process of physical transformation of the body, its transformation and enrichment of form.