If we tried to imagine Pavel Bankas creative life as a photograph, its inherently transient nature would probably show very soon. There would be a steady stream of portraits, staged figurative actions, spaces artificially created by the artist himself, images verging on the abstract, as well as landscapes and interiors with a spiritual dimension. Such an imaginary picture would then suggest a host of frameworks within which Bankas work might be arranged, based on various inner and external criteria just as the motif of the frame itself keeps recurring throughout Bankas work. A biographical angle would show that ever since his beginnings as a self-taught photographer, Banka has retained his determination to search and invent, thus keeping at bay any danger of artistic stagnation, while always putting new approaches to the test.