{"id":14660,"date":"2020-10-07T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/croatian-photography.com\/?p=14660"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:38:23","slug":"masa-bajc-at-spot-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/croatian-photography.com\/en\/masa-bajc-at-spot-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma\u0161a Bajc at Spot Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ma\u0161a Bajc, from the Nature of Things series, 2017 – 2020<\/p><\/div>\n

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Spot Gallery<\/strong> and Office for Photography<\/strong> announce the exhibition The Nature of Things<\/em><\/strong> by Ma\u0161a Bajc<\/strong>. The opening of the exhibition is October 12th<\/strong> and the exhibition space will be open for visitors from 5pm to 9pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is the product of a collaboration between\u00a0Office for Photography \u2013 Spot Gallery, Gallery AK\u00a0\u2013 The Atelier Koprivnica, in Koprivnica and City Gallery Striegl\u00a0in Sisak.<\/p>\n

The touchstone of this work in progress (2017\u20132020) is the meadow \u2013 the crossroad between the natural space and the urbanised periphery of the city.
\nThe artist has been continuously exploring the meadow in her neighbourhood during her walks and uses it as a metaphor for the relationship between the community (which she herself is part of) and the natural space and landscape.<\/p>\n

According to the anthropology of landscapes, people do not merely live within a certain space\/landscape, they also live through it: that landscape is an inseparable component of their social and cultural lives. Just as people shape the landscape around them both physically and symbolically, so too does the landscape reciprocate in its influence on the shaping of their identities and interpersonal relationships (Paola Filippucci: “Landscape”, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology<\/em>, 2018).
\nOn the meadow cultivated fields and embankments with wild flowers, wild animals and wild landfills merge one into the other. The meadow functions as a microcosm of its own and is used for walks, recreation, agriculture, pasture, hunting, foraging, and so on. It bears witness to the encounters and meetings of the different generations of people who have shaped it just as the meadow has shaped them and their memories. The railroad tracks and the tarmac that leads to the graveyard form a sort of border between the meadow and the city. Soon a new city bypass will be running through that meadow. The steady narrowing and disappearing of the natural space reflects the tendency for the development of cities and social changes.
\nThe artist uses her photographs to record the things she noticed during her walks: objects, both natural and man-made, that have been cast aside as well as natural occurrences and changes. She explores clues and traces, things that get thrown away and burnt, things that once used to mean \u00a0something.<\/p>\n

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Ma\u0161a Bajc, from the Nature of Things<\/em> series, 2017-2020<\/p><\/div>\n

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As part of the complementary program of the exhibition Office for Photography will be hosting a\u00a0 Zoom reading group\u00a0on the topic of man and the environment,\u00a0which will be held on October 22nd.<\/p>\n

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Ma\u0161a Bajc<\/strong>\u00a0was born in 1980 in \u010cakovec, Croatia. She graduated from the\u00a0Faculty of Economics and Business and\u00a0from the 2010 holds a master degree in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. She currently works as a photographer and instructor in the field of photography (she taught at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, and has held many photography workshops). Her work is exhibited\u00a0in solo and group exhibitions\u00a0both locally and abroad.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition is supported by City of Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Kultura Nova Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Opening hours of Spot Gallery:
\nMon \u2013 Fri \/ 4 \u2013 8 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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