22. 1. – 14. 2. 2025 at Photon Gallery.

The latest photo series by Nataša Segulin, QUID ULTRA? (“What Is Beyond?”), already alludes to something magical in its title. In a project developed over a period of five years, the artist questions the spirit of the times, together with the light and dark sides of life and, in a broader sense, our existence and history. The current works were created in the artist’s characteristic minimalist style of clean compositions and with a keen sense of the visual language of the selected images. Nataša Segulin takes architecture, spatial details, and nature as a starting point for the series, but frames them and presents them transformed into mysterious and indecipherable images.

The seemingly highly abstract photographs are placed in real time and space by the titles and years of origin of the works, which reveal the various places in the world where they were created. Looking at the photographs in the QUID ULTRA? series, we as viewers are thus involved in a constant oscillation between the real and the abstract, our gaze being drawn beyond the visual image to the inner essence of the photograph through the details of light or space. The artist’s expression symbolically uses dark tones as a metaphor for silence and also for the unconscious, while light takes on the role of hope. Through the artist’s lens and intuitive creative process, we witness her inner dialogue between seeing and feeling, beyond our individual and universal expectations and illusions. At the same time, her photographs invite us to see deeper and discover what lies beyond a façade, behind the curtain of the visible and the invisible.

Author of text: Špela Pipan

Nataša Segulin was born in Koper, Slovenia, and graduated from the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana in 1973. For most of her professional career, she worked as a journalist, editor, and chief editor at TV Koper-Capodistria (TV Slovenia). While studying art history and working as an art and culture journalist, she became interested in photography. However, it was not until 2011 that she was able to pursue it. Since 2013, she has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad (Vienna, Zagreb, Budapest, Bratislava, Nuremberg, Venice, Rome, Florence, Paris, and Munich). For her creative work in photography, she has received international recognition and awards. In 2019, her first photo book, Lumen (published by Galerija Fotografija), was released. She is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Slovenia (ZDSLU).

Exhibiton catalogue

MMC Slovenia

MMC – TV show Kultura

TV Koper

Megafon

Kritik

Kultura.net