The Temporary Address exhibition by the alumni of the Up Close: Photography as a Way of Seeing study group will open at the Jakopič Gallery. If you would like to meet the mentors of the Up Close study group and the participating authors, you are invited to join them at 6:00 PM for a discussion with them, followed by the opening of the exhibition at 7:00 PM.
Up Close: Photography as a Way of Seeing is one of the most successful informal adult education programmes at the Jakopič Gallery, particularly because it has helped uncover exceptional talent among its nearly 90 alumni. The programme, designed by mentors Dr. Marija Skočir, Matevž Paternoster, Metod Blejec, Saša Kralj, and Janja Rebolj, is conceived as a study group based on an educational model where we teach by learning and learn by teaching. The process is not based on hierarchical transmission of advice or instructions but on the exchange of experiences, gradual unfolding of content, and mutual growth.
The group brings together individuals with diverse backgrounds, interests, and visual practices, and it is precisely this diversity that transforms the meetings into an open space for research and experimentation. The programme has proven to be highly successful, especially since it has recognised some exceptional talents among its alumni, whose creative work has also inspired shifts in established approaches to photography.
In the Temporary Address group exhibition, which concludes the previous workshops, 17 authors selected through an open call will present their work. Their photographs are imbued with feelings of intimacy and familiarity, vulnerability and change, as well as an awareness of their own impermanence. Through these works, they recreate ambients and question the meaning of the various spaces we inhabit.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and showcases the creative efforts of the following photographers:
Urša Culiberg, Florian Cziesla, Ana Geršak, Goran Jakovac, Benedikt Jeranko, Žan Koprivnik, Klemen Kunaver, Olga Lipič, Ana Marwan, Drago Metljak, Marijan Močivnik, Peter Nose, Una Rebić, Roman Rus, Tea Stepan, Boris Zabukovec, Bruna Žeželić.
