In his latest series Trbuljak is presenting his most recent photographs under the working title Sketches for a Sculpture, which contains a number of still-lives composed of objects, that act as attributes of his two vocations (film and photography). We can recognize objects such as light measuring tools, video cameras, various volumes of expert literature, etc. In his photographs, these »banal« objects gain new meaning and are rendered monumental. Trbuljak’s photographs present a model for conceptual thought and conception of an artwork. The selection of the photographed objects thus becomes both a formalistic as well as a conceptual gesture, which features a self-reflective contemplation on his own work.

I divide the films I have made into the hand-made and the ready-made. Films in which the objects are drawn by hand are hand-made, and those in which existing things are shot are ready-made. If we are to believe that Duchamp found inspiration for the idea of the ready-made in the medium of film, when every real object photographed, selected from life, becomes detached on the screen, enlarged and important, then going back to his original point of departure, every object in any film that I have shot has become for me a ready-made, recorded on film stock…

Godard said that a film is the truth 24 times a second, and Haneke that it is a lie 24 times a second, while for me film is 24 ready-mades shot in a second. In a film that lasts 95 minutes, I have shot 137440 ready-mades…

(Goran Trbuljak, 2017)