A photograph is a story that does not need to be told
Photo exhibition of the Kamnik Photo Club
4.-31. 12. 2019
DKK Gallery, Fužine 10, Kamnik
They exhibit: Klara Galičič, Janez Glavač, Blaž Janežič, Maja Jemec, Rudi Kotnik, Dušan Letnar,
Bojan Mijatovič, Simon Podgoršek, Primož Poljanšek, Liza Praznik, Aleš Senožetnik, Ana Stanovnik
Perčič, Nina Šubic
Synchronicities of reality
The Kamnik Photo Club's annual exhibition deals with the post-production of the photographic medium. For two months, under the mentorship of Bojan Mijatović, the members of the photo club upgraded the classical guidelines of photography with experimental approaches of collage, intervention in the motif, appropriation/appropriation of found images from the archive or photo diary... in order to create a new message. Most of the time, group tampering with photos resulted in risk, provocation, engaged, socially critical and comical commentary. In the group creation, the censorship of Time, which was dictated by the opening date of the exhibition, appeared as the only collective unconscious.
At the exhibition, synchronicities of three realities take place: first, the reality of the object and the photographic apparatus (situation 0), then the quasi-reality of the captured image and moment (situation 1) and, with an experimental intervention in post-production, the "new" reality of the "new" image (situation 2). As viewers, we become aware of all the realities knowing that the display of post-production is the intention of the exhibition this time, more important than the motive and desire for the creation of the photograph. The exhibition therefore remains without an author and replaces him with a collective. The exhibition also tests the presentation strategy and arranges the photographs on the gallery walls in an apparently disordered manner and without mutual formal or substantive connections. The works are in frames, without them or even beyond the frames.
A photogenic exhibition was created - how to enter it?
First step: Embrace the entire gallery with panoramic views. Then walk filigree from photo to photo. Pay attention to the details that will appear repeatedly in the collaged images. Step two: Look for associative links between the exhibited photos; you can follow formal criteria (colors, composition) or content (motifs, you will find quite a few images of animals). The third step: Look for a new message that is hidden in the process of creation, the boldness of the intervention, the questioning of the photographic medium and at the same time respect for it (such are, for example, photographs of animals, where there are almost no interventions). Step Four: Finish by watching an animation where all the collaged images and sound merge into an exhibition manifesto that is humorous, Monty Pythonesque absurd. If the photographers interfered with each other's work, the video artist interfered with their work and added the finishing touch. Step Five: Forget about the instructions and let your feelings and your own perception go. We live in an eclectic time, dictated, among other things, by Google's aesthetics of rapid information gathering and visual sensations.
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Dušan Dovč
Production: Photo club Kamnik
Support: Kamnik Municipality, JSKD, Kamnik Cultural Center / Institute for Tourism, Sport and Culture Kamnik
