© Tanja Verlak, Midnight in Mumbai, 2012-2017
The exhibition will open on Saturday 16 November at 6 pm at the Slovenian Cultural Centre Korotan, Albertgasse 48, 1080 Vienna.
The ROTLICHT International Festival of Analog Photography, which will take place in Vienna for the fourth time in 2024, has developed into an important creative hub for analogue art photography in Central Europe. In the framework of the festival, Tanja Verlak, one of the most renowned Slovenian contemporary photographers, will present a solo exhibition of around 20 black-and-white analogue photographs from her series Midnight in Mumbai (2012-2017), in which she highlights the gestures of observation and explores the phenomenon of the magical in photography. For the artist, “the return to the magical has less to do with the things we see and more to do with how we see them. This is why, in the creation of her photographs, she lets herself be guided by the image and, at the same time, by the magic that introduces a reality that is different from the empirical.” (T.V.)
Tanja Verlak (*1979) is one of the most internationally successful Slovenian photographic artists, as evidenced by her extensive CV and numerous awards and scholarships. She received her PhD from the Royal College of Art, London, researching “the relationship between the indexical image and its iconic or imaginary aspects through ontological and phenomenological models of the photographic image”. In 2021, she was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the invitation of the Museum of Contemporary Photography – MoCP and Columbia College Chicago. Her work is part of national and international art collections and has recently been offered by Sotheby’s.
The exhibition will be on view until 20 December 2024.
