135 IMAGES / 96 PAGES / 23 X 31 CM / 50 COPIES / SELF-PUBLISHED / ISBN 978-961-07-1079-0 / 40 EUR

The book developed from material I created for my bachelor’s thesis at ALUO in 2021, while researching exhibitions and their relation to photography. I chose this topic because art exhibitions seemed strange and confusing to me. I didn’t fully understand them and felt like I was missing the core reason behind this phenomenon. Many of my questions were addressed through research into the historical development of exhibitions, institutions, the art market, and curators. I was also interested in the factors that shape the visitor’s experience and the connection between photography and exhibition — photographed exhibitions and exhibited photographs. Photography documents, creates history, increases value, relaxes the mind, poses questions, and more. It acts in a similar way to an art exhibition: it shows, exposes, focuses, and isolates elements from the ordinary world. It creates experiences and invites viewers to explore its space. It reveals beauty — sometimes making things appear even more beautiful than they would to the passing eye in daily reality. In open, empty, lonely public spaces — in a way similar to museums and galleries — I found viewers, spaces that felt good, and installations that changed over time. The last act was an exhibition (and a photo shoot at the same time) of the first copy of the book in a photo studio. Photographs from the exhibition were used for the front and back book covers. For photographers, the idea of “exhibition” has a broader meaning. Everything in the world is exhibited in a way — waiting to become history and to be removed from its context by the frame of a photograph. And then exhibited. And photographed again.

book review by Hana Čeferin for Membrana

exhibited in:
Ponjava 2
group exhibition
Objekt 2, Tobačna, Ljubljana
June 2022

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