Photo exhibitions of "Beauty and the Beast" by the author Maje Šivec from Slovenia and "(In)tangible cultural heritage" of the author Marko Stojanović from Serbia, will be opened tonight in Podgorica, in the F64 Photo Gallery at 19 p.m.
The authors will present their concepts in more than 30 papers.
"Photographer Maja Šivec always discovers new photographic ways of telling stories; approach selected motives in a planned and research way. Ever since the first series of photographs of naked pregnant women, she has been interested in the strangeness of the subject. It shows the naked body, both female and male, very directly, without unnecessary covering, without shame. The body is always an interesting object for her, mostly with a direct or associated erotic connotation. As an author who always surprises with her artistic photographs, this time she highlighted the coexistence of two mutually exclusive motifs with a series of photographs depicting Kurenta, a Slavic mythological being, and nudes," she says. Tatjana Pregl Kobe in the accompanying text.
Marko Stojanović's works, he explained, were created on the day of Christ's baptism, when hundreds of naked men, led by the gendarmerie and priests, filled the Epiphany Plateau on the right bank of the Danube.
"The Orthodox custom of swimming for the Holy Cross became a propaganda spectacle during the war nineties. A unique collage of church uniforms, shiny insignia of elite military units, officials, pyrotechnics and drones reveals the deep connection between the secular state and the church. And when the swimmers take off their clothing, a gallery of tattooed messages, religious and even symbols of paramilitary formations is revealed, which soon disappear under the turbulent muddy water of the Danube," said the author, who recalls that the "manifestation was registered in the National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the end of in 2023".
His photos were taken on the same day, during the five-year monitoring of the event, at several locations near the confluence of the Sava and the Danube.
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