Susan Sontag said, “For it is in the nature of a photograph that it can never entirely transcend its subject, as a painting can. Nor can a photograph ever transcend the visual itself, which is in some sense the ultimate aim of modernist painting.” Breaking away from its reliance on identifiable visual signs, the readable perspective that abstract photography carries is the eye of abstraction we are looking for in the mirror.
The curatorial agenda of The Eye of Abstraction is to clarify that the lens of photography is not only applied for documenting or reporting reality, or recording life, it also could express the visual forms of the photographer's murmurs or shouts. It leads us to a new perspective. The Eye of Abstraction ambiguously carries a reminder of self-awareness of the extraordinary perspective of the author as an audience.
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