Exhibition Without Object @ Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography

Without Object

Opening on Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 6 pm.

29. 11. – 9. 12. 2022

Participating Artists:
Jon Žagar, Luka Prijatelj, Andrej Lamut, Jure Goršič

Curator:
Jure Goršič

The photographic exhibition “Without Object” is based on an interest in empty space. The curatorial concept of photographer Jure Goršič is created in collaboration with 3 photographers – Jon, Luka and Andrej, with whom the artist opens his questions to a wider collective of artists. With the thematic starting point – without an object – he invites them to form their own position towards the void, to consciously observe thoughts and ideas that materialise on the surface of the photograph based on the author’s decisions. The empty space does not appear as a space of lack or negation, but as a space of liberation and infinite potential, a space that, in the retreat of attention to the outside world, allows the revelation of one’s own being. To devote time to the search for the inner impulses to create is the fundamental work of every artist. Since his generation must reclaim this time (and space), this is not only an artistic but also a political work.

The principle of the curatorial project “Without Object”, presented to the public in the exhibition of the same name, is open. It represents a prototype of a photographic practice and a way of exhibiting where there is no rigid programme and structure present. The artists, including him, create works out of their own desire and not out of the desire of the “big other”. Such a mechanism allows for the dissolution of the hermetic system and thus for “seeing through” – showing photographic production that would otherwise not be seen. It deals with the art of freedom of expression and with the subjective interests of the creators, which have no function outside art itself.

The exhibition thus moves away from attempts at creation that declare themselves to be art, while at the same time intervening in forms of human action (politics, advertising, archiving) that are external to art.

Co-funding: MOL Razpis – Mladike

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