TITLE: Another World (...) and Other Things

"I’m in my bedroom and I see two cages, one for my guinea pig and one for the hamster I used to have. I look into what I think is the hamster’s cage, and I’m surprised to see she’s still alive. All of a sudden, the “hamster” is out of the cage, and there’s some dialogue (between me and the hamster?). Then, she’s on the floor and starts running. She runs downstairs and I’m afraid a cat might get her (until I realize she’s a guinea pig, not a hamster). There is a very wide kitchen door that I try to close but the guinea pig gets out of the house. As soon as she sees the outside, she runs even faster across the street and keeps going. I run after her. I see her in the yard across the street but then she keeps running. She runs a little further into someone’s backyard, where there are leaves all around. My grandmother is there, and I try to tell her to be careful where she walks because the guinea pig could be under the leaves. Then, all of a sudden my grandmother sits down on the ground, and says something which I don’t remember. I think she might have stepped on the guinea pig, but it was right next to her. There’s a puddle or small pond in the yard, and the guinea pig then swims through it. I manage to pick her up while she’s in the water. She seems to be purring like a cat, and it seems all she needed was a bath."

From DreamBank - Jeff: A Lucid Dreamer

AUTHOR: Ursa Majeure [photography duo] (Austria)

Sophie-Luise Passow (*1994, Vienna) studied photography in the class of German artist Gabriele Rothemann and graphics and printmaking with Swedish artist Jan Svenungsson at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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Urte Laukaityte (*1992, Vilnius) was educated at the University of Cambridge for her BA, attained her MSc at the University of Edinburgh, and is a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley. Urte spent the year 2022/23 as a Solitude fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
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Ursa Majeure (*2023, Stuttgart) was born Athena-style from the combined heads of a two-part organism wandering the forests around a 1700s schloss. If experience were summative, she would have a three-decade long photographic career by now, despite being birthed in January of last year. She has grand plans for her future as a photographer, including experimenting with different techniques—state-of-the-art as well as historical. A crucial feature of her practice is the symbiosis of photography and text, or, more broadly, the fusion of art and science—the perennial holy grail of contemporality.

Recent Awards:
Chromatic Photography Awards 2023 - People: Honorable Mention (Amateur)
Monochrome Photography Awards 2023 - Portrait: Honorable Mention (Amateur)