Conceptual - NOMINEE: Jon Žagar

The works presented are based on the concept of the photographic act of confrontation with the unconscious mind. The starting motive is nature which is then transformed with the camera through a certain artistic idea. In this way it is an integration between a mimetic representation of reality and a morphological transformation of that reality into a new fictitious reality. The result is a poetic atmosphere that arises from the solitary night explorations of landscapes. Photography in that sense becomes a means of therapy in overcoming fear and anxiety while encountering the eerie and threatening, therefore entering the field of the dark sublime.

About author:
Artistic Education
October 2010/March 2017: Master of Visual Communication Design: Photography. Academy of Fine Arts and Design (UL ALUO) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Solo exhibitions
2014, Expression of timelessness, Osrednja knjižnica Kranj: enota Jezersko, Jezersko, Slovenia.

Group exhibitions
2016, Vabljeni mladi 2016 DLUM, Galerija DLUM, Maribor, Slovenia.
2016, Insomnia (Freštreš), Bikofe, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2016, (Un)known, Galerija Mikado (Photonic Moments), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2016, After All, Cellar Galeria, Krakow, Poland.
2016, ALUO XX, Jakopič gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015, Razprodaja (Freštreš), GT22, Maribor, Slovenia.
2015, Apropriation of the moment, Dig gallery, Košice, Slovakia.
2015, Redemption (Freštreš), Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2015, Apropriation of the moment, GT22, Maribor, Slovenia.

Publications
2017, The sublime and photography: master thesis, Jon Žagar.
2014, Homo universalis: Thirty years of department of design on ALUO at the University of Ljubljana, Petra Tihole, published in Mladina, ISSN 0350-9346. - [Num.] 35 (29. avg. 2014), p. 52-55.
2013, Expression of timelessness in photography: bachelor thesis, Jon Žagar.