You are cordially invited to the first photography exhibition in Slovenia, on February 25, 2015, at 8 pm in the Kamnik House of Culture, where a series by the young author Bojan Mijatović will be presented.
In the presented series, Mijatović leans on a classic photographic motif, which he translates with several elements into a modern photographic or rather phototographic language. The Photatography series was created right on the border between classic, conventional, clearly designed guidelines and experimental, relaxed, humorous, independent approaches of the young artist.
Installation and selection of works: Bojan Mijatović and Anja Zver
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First we debated. Then I saw them and we debated a little more. We also debated together, in the car. We met on Saturday and talked a little about this and that. That evening until morning, but not even so much about them. And then we didn't hear from each other for two days. He called me one evening, he had just gone to take some more pictures and there were more and more of them. I saw the first monumental photography in the darkroom. It was magnificent, with an outstanding aesthetic of the contrast between the radiant and the blackness. On it, an unusual witness of time appeared and talked about dents, shoots, furrows, shape, about its uniqueness. I already knew then that there would be six more. I imagined the related protagonists lined up one after the other on large formats and stared at the selection of seven in the notebook. They made me laugh.
Precisely because of the obvious aesthetics and the continuous emphasis on the banal motif of the work, they do not remain on the level of speaking about (so many times overwritten) reality or falsity of the medium or when dealing with the author's personal approach. In a way, they reflect on their mediating role and reveal and conceal the loose divisions between the stories of the three protagonists – the photographer, the photographed and the photographed. By stringing and introducing the absurd into the frames of clichés, they reject them, and the works also erase the traces of classical photography.
All you see is camouflage. One even pretended to be an animal in front of Bojan.
~ Anja Zver
