silange

Silange is the name of a photo series set I took in October 2022 in the Vysočina region, not far from the village of Uhřínov. It’s a photo series of a silage bag, what is a huge polythene bag that is filled with hay during the summer, which is then continuously taken out over the winter and fed to the cattle. It is presented in form of a 33 page zine.

I discovered this strange sculpture during my summer stay in quarantine, but did not return to photograph it until 3 months later. In talking to the creator of this piece, I discovered that the abstract twisted shapes that the bag is full of are the result of coincidence and ignorance of how to go about filling the bag.

While this work was at the moment of creating it based almost entirely on the visuality of the result, i perceive it now as an important moment in my creative progress, where projects like this one started to shape my practice into more material and sculptural outcomes. 

zine, 33 pages, 245 × 345 mm

May 2022