Thursday, 21 January at 7 pm
You are kindly invited to attend the guided tour through the New/Old (Constructions) exhibition and discussion where Bojan Salaj, Peter Rauch and Miha Colner take part.
The exhibition showcases recent works of Bojan Salaj who is moving away from the traditional postulates of photographic representaion and instead explores the characteristics of visual language, ontology of photography as well as touches on the most pressing questions of contemporary society.
Despite the apparent minimalism and formalism of the images he also analyses broader socio-political context. The exhibition as a whole thus focuses on the profound deliberation about the gray eminence of modern society, invisible but omnipresent capital. Salaj therefore profoundly deliberates 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, and questions the current media iconography which 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.
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