CRYSTAL SKY (CANON F1 camera, 135 B&W film)

Branko Franceschi: “… Architecture is the discipline that, in every age, reflects the contemporary historical discourse of the whole of human knowledge and relationship with the environment. With low angle shots that provide a telling reflection of the universal push of architecture upwards, Mjeda presents them as symbols of incontestable earthly power that reaches for the heaven. This particularly refers to the titanic monoliths of the epoch of liberal and neoliberal capitalism that mark the contemporary line of the join of city and sky, symbolising modern secular power and out-topping by far the towers of temples once unimpeached as the extreme points of structures in space to which the human spirit soared. The almost abstract quality of Mjeda’s compositions, heightened by the decision to produce the prints in black and white, puts in the foreground the transcendental web of the whole series’ conception of Crystal Sky…”