18 December 2015 – 29 January 2016

The exhibition Old/New (Constructions) showcases recent works of Bojan Salaj. These have partially been conceived in the early stages of his artistic career and have been executed and displayed only now while some of them are completely new and based on topical socio-political issues. Moving away from the traditional postulates of photographic representaion Salaj explores the characteristics of visual language, ontology of photography and at the same time touches on the most pressing questions of contemporary society.

In his recent works Salaj analyses broader socio-political context despite the apparent minimalism and formalism of the images. The exhibition as a whole focuses on the profound deliberation about the gray eminence of modern society, invisible but omnipresent capital. The artist is thus dedicated to analysing the ideas of modernism which has always, also with the reduction of a painting to a geometrical surface thoroughly changed the perception of art as well as the status of an art work and an artist. On the other hand is relates to the current media iconography that reflects today’s widespread and omnipresent instability.

Bojan Salaj (1964) is a photographer who since the early 1990s continuously creates and exhibits his artistic projects. In his works he highlights and questions the representation of photography in mass media, iconography of power structures, models of construction of history, and ways of establishing national and cultural identities. He commonly follows distinctly conceptual approaches and objectivistic principles. Since 1994 he is employed as a photographer at the National Gallery in Ljubljana and he is, at the same time, author of numerous photographs from the field Slovenian cultural heritage. He lives and works in Ljubljana.