About
Hanna Råst intuitively and systematically explores the broad context of photography, a man-tainted natural process. A process that seems like any chemical reaction on Earth existsand we know about it because it has been grasped by man and is consciously used. Hanna is well aware of this human independence and seems to have been brought to the medium of photography by an enormous interest in time. After all, she wanted to be an archaeologist. Probably because of this, he is looking for so-called photographs, ie visual records, which were created naturally before man invented the technique of photography. Apparently the first known example of a negative is nothing less significant than the Turin Canvas. Whether the canvas is a true depiction of Jesus Christ or a later – medieval artifact, the scientists believe that it is not the work of the human hand, but the projection.
Hanna Råst’s secondary work with photographic images has become so typical that, in addition to her own family album (which she uses without hesitation) and flea or antiquarian findings, her work archive grows with donated personal photographs of friends and her students. Where can we actually find an image recording today? What is worth taking a picture? How much time has elapsed since the shooting was a costly peculiarity, so that only solemn family moments or those just before the farewell were recorded? And perhaps the most pressing question today – will our overcrowded SD cards survive, just as the thin layer of silver halide on paper has survived the generation ahead?
