CONCRETE DREAMS: PHOTOGRAPHING INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE @ Photon Gallery

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CONCRETE DREAMS: PHOTOGRAPHING INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE @ Photon Gallery

September 21st, 2019 by fstop

CONCRETE DREAMS: PHOTOGRAPHING INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
September to 30 October 2019

Participating artists: Branko Cvetkovič, Danica O. Kus, Borut Peterlin, Mirjana Rukavina, Damjan Švarc, Virginia Vrecl, Antonio Živkovič.

“The project Concrete Dreams explores the heritage of industrial architecture conveyed through photography and video media. In the narrower sense, the project raises the question of how artists in the perceive this heritage today and how it is used as material for their projects in terms of aesthetic relevance. In a broader sense, it reflects a certain space and time within the context of 20th century post-war Europe, which encouraged the development of industry and thus of a particular architecture. Today, the latter is being largely abandoned and torn down or is changing its function. The project focuses on the region of the former communist Eastern Europe, i.e. on the countries which, after World War II, adopted or were forced to adopt a socialist political and economic system, even though similar functional architecture was emerging throughout the Western world. Participating artists reflect on the past through the material remains of selected industrial locations, thus touching on issues of personal and collective memories.”

Photon Gallery
Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1
1000 Ljubljana

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Type: Exhibition

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