The ninety-first video of "Short Monologues by Platon Rivellis on Photography and Art" (2nd series, 2017).

Our era seems to distrust artworks significantly. That's why it has invented an entire world around them that supposedly supports them. Ideas, captions, theories, curators, journalists, supporters. In reality, anything that happens in art should be within the artwork itself, whether it's a musical piece, a painting, or a choreography. Any external reference attempting to support it is like a confession of the artist's and the artwork's weakness. The conflicts, whether they are ideological, emotional, visual, or historical, must exist within the artwork and on the artwork’s terms. Therefore, if a photograph has value, it must derive it from its own frame and the contents it includes and depicts, not from references, citations, winks, captions, concepts, political dimensions, societal integration, etc. A work is significant not for its place in social, political history nor for the value society assigns to it but for the position the creator has taken in the history of art and among other creators. The work is a wrestling ring in which the creator struggles with whatever preceded in that art form, and all must be resolved within the framework of the work. Anything that escapes the four sides of the photograph, anything that escapes from that specific piece of image, does not help the photograph but simply betrays its weakness. The conflicts must be contained within the artwork itself.