Photo exhibition on migration opens in Ljubljana
Ljubljana, 18 May - An exhibition of photographs by Meta Krese will open on Thursday in the Ljubljana City Art Gallery. The exhibition titled Have You Come to Stay? tackles migration through personal stories and is the most extensive presentation to date of Krese, one of the most prominent Slovenian photojournalists, the gallery wrote on its website.
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Photographer Meta Krese.
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The exhibition depicts personal stories of migrants and how they form new identities after they lose their environment and their frame of reference. The photograph in its power and the energy of the format aims to make viewers ask themselves similar questions, the gallery wrote.
Krese is interested in people of different genders, ages and social classes that have migrated and are migrating around the world, the gallery wrote. Her work requires a lot of socialising with people, research and societal and cultural analyses.
The exhibition curated by Sarival Sosič will be on show until 20 August.
Krese will take part in a panel on photography of people at the gallery on 23 May alongside photographers Borut Krajnc and Nik Erik Neubauer.
Meta Krese has contributed photographs for many books, co-authored monographs, wrote several books, and was an editor of the journal of Slovenian photographers, Photography, for ten years. She received the European award Writing for CEE in 2011, and the award for outstanding journalistic creations in 2006, awarded by the Slovenian Association of Journalists.
Her exhibition on Srebrenica widows is currently on show at the Alkatraz Gallery in Ljubljana.