In this text, photographic fine art refers to a subset within the broader field of art expressed through the photographic medium.
It is a domain constituted by the designation of an authorial subject,
and presupposes external evaluation in the form of “works” or “productions,”
thereby rendering human desire institutionally visible as art.

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In other words, photographic fine art occupies a specific territory within an art system that is predicated upon social recognition, evaluation, and circulation,
where photography functions as one expressive form among others.

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What is meant by Zero-Horizon is not the direct inheritance of marginal art within the taxonomy of art,
but rather an attempt to carry the perspective indicated by marginal art—namely, the outer edge of institutional systems—
further downward, into the dimension of generative structure itself.

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Zero-Horizon does not focus on marginal art’s boundary as such,
that is, not on “that which does not come into being” or “that which resists institutionalization,”
but on the horizon that precedes their emergence—
what phenomenology would describe as a horizon:
that which is not presently visible, yet is necessarily there.

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The “zero (≒0)” posited by Zero-Horizon does not signify infinity itself,
but rather a conceptual threshold situated immediately before the bifurcation of being and non-being.

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The “zero” historically discussed as the boundary of marginal art is not equivalent to “nothingness (=0).”
It designates something that approaches zero as closely as possible while still minimally existing—
in other words, the smallest remaining potential for generation at the moment when existence is about to vanish.

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Within Zero-Horizon, this “zero” is not treated as a motif,
but as a minute—indeed, microscopic—phenomenal condition.
Because of its indeterminate formation,
it encompasses a variety of irregular and heterogeneous entanglements that arise as though lightly surrounding nothingness.

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That is to say, Zero-Horizon internally includes fluctuation understood as a non-stationary state that emerges in conjunction with generative processes.

Accordingly, Zero-Horizon Photographic Fine Art is not a system that treats this generative structure as an object of representation,
but rather an arrangement (system) designed to render the very conditions of its emergence experientially accessible.

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It functions as a conceptual framework that bridges the generative processes preceding crystallization into art objects,
while allowing photography—when addressed as art—to transition into institutional form without effacing those processes.