Rene Ketiš, from the series SPODIK, 2023
On Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in P – space for photography at Koroška cesta 24 in Maribor.
With the exhibition Rene Ketiš: SPODIK in P – space for photography, we are starting a series of exhibitions that will take place throughout the year. We open the program with a local author of the younger generation, who, with his distinctly personal and intuitive photographic language, marks contemporary visual production.
The exhibition SPODIK opens up questions of artistic creation at a time when art increasingly operates according to the laws of the market and contemporary trends. Rene Ketiš counters these pressures with loyalty to his own vision, sincere expression and rejection of internal censorship.
The title of the exhibition comes from the author’s dialect and hints at a view “from below” – both in the literal and aesthetic sense. The photographs, marked by a raw “snapshot” aesthetic, robust contrast and graininess, record fleeting, intimate and often overlooked moments of everyday life. They intertwine scenes of socializing, urban details and personal experiences, which in their immediacy seem both banal and moving. The series, which has been created over the past five years, is distinctly autobiographical and expressive. As the author says: “Photography is my meditation, my personal therapy.”
Rene Ketiš (2001) graduated in photography from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, where he is currently pursuing his master’s degree. His practice is based on spontaneity and intuition; through photography he explores internal emotional processes and records fleeting, often overlooked moments of everyday life. Using analogue black and white photography, bold framing and expressive post-production, he transforms banal motifs into distinctly personal and suggestive images.