ROSPHOTO pre­sents the ex­hi­bi­tion of the emerg­ing artists, par­tic­i­pants of the in­ter­na­tion­ally renown pho­tog­ra­phy pro­ject re­Gen­er­a­tion 2: To­mor­row's Pho­tog­ra­phers Today: Jacinthe Lessard-L (Mon­treal, Canada), Sylvia Doe­belt (Leipzig, Ger­many), Yusuke Nishimura (New York, USA), and Fred­er­ick Vidal (Ham­burg, Ger­many).

The pro­ject BLUE SKIES & CATS is an an­a­lyt­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tion of the image and the speci­ficity of the pho­to­graphic medium. The ex­hi­bi­tion title draws its name from two sci­en­tific con­cepts: Blue Skies Re­search and Schrödinger's cat. The first term refers to re­search ac­tiv­i­ties with­out im­plicit goals, spe­cific terms or pre-de­fined bound­aries. The ob­jects of such in­ves­ti­ga­tion can only be iden­ti­fied through being un­de­ter­mined and un­ex­plained. The sec­ond con­cept (which brings CATS to the title) takes into con­sid­er­a­tion that the ob­ject of re­search changes when being ob­served, which is also an in­her­ent qual­ity of pho­tog­ra­phy.

But the con­no­ta­tions of blue skies and cats also in­di­cate a genre of can­did pho­tog­ra­phy which of­fers a win­dow to the world around us or a mir­ror to it. The artists were in­trigued by these con­tra­dict­ing no­tions of words and con­sciously chose this ab­surd eti­quette while their pho­tog­ra­phy leans to­wards ab­strac­tion, or to say the least, blurs the re­la­tion­ship to the ref­er­ent.

The im­ages being shown have been cre­ated through the pho­tog­ra­phers’ ex­per­i­ments with dif­fer­ent as­pects of the pho­to­graphic process (op­tics, light, color, ex­po­sure, re­ver­sal processes). They en­able the viewer to have a unique ex­pe­ri­ence of pho­tog­ra­phy. Pro­jec­tions and mul­ti­ple ex­po­sures as well as the pho­to­graphic scrutiny of sim­ple sur­faces and spaces – such as white mask­ing tape, a plane tree's bark or the space of the Cam­era Ob­scura – re­sult in a va­ri­ety of pho­to­graphic im­ages that pose a great num­ber of ques­tions about the re­la­tion­ship be­tween the cho­sen ob­jects, the world and pho­tog­ra­phy.