MARE TUUM #1









Mare Tuum is a transnational, collaborative platform bringing together emerging artists and researchers from four European institutions: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest), the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), LCI Barcelona – School of Design and Visual Arts, and Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Developed within the Erasmus+ framework, the project builds a living network of shared practices, methodologies, and situated forms of knowledge that extends well beyond conventional institutional exchange.








                         



Benedikt Burger
Vokabular

Vokabular

Benedikt Burger


At its core, photography is an attempt to understand—a way to bridge the distance between the self and the unknown.

Vokabular approaches a place that is in constant motion. Lanzarote—volcanic, wind-carved, contradictory—is not a backdrop, but a counterpart that resists being fully known. The island became a space of resonance, where observation, encounter, and uncertainty overlapped.

At the center of the project is a conceptual use of language. Selected Spanish words appear alongside the photographs—not as captions, but as associative extensions of the visual material. Referencing the format of a vocabulary book, these terms disrupt linear reading and open up layers of interpretation. Vokabular is less a document of place than a reflection on the act of photographic observation itself. It investigates how image and language can shape, distort, or fragment our understanding of an unfamiliar environment.



·       Desajuste — Unstimmigkeit

·       Distancia — Distanz

·       Fragmento — Fragment

·       Lazo — Band, Verbindung

·       Luz dura — hartes Licht

·       Máscara — Maske, Verhüllung

·       Postura — Haltung, Pose

·       Rastro — Spur, Abdruck

·       Resplandor — Leuchten, Glühen

·       Silueta — Silhouette

·       Tránsito — Übergang, Bewegung

·       Vacío — Leere, Vakuum

·       Vulnerabilidad — Verletzlichkeit