Photography Exhibition ‘In reality and in the fiction’ of the artist Sanja Merćep.
In the photographic series In Reality and Fiction, Sanja explored the (de)construction of the representation of mountain landscapes by creating a personal perspective on mountain landscapes and documenting various forms of societal imagination of mountains. Focusing on private objects that serve as mediators of her personal mountaineering experience, Sanja depicted the symbolic and imaginary dimensions of mountain landscapes that are less visible in the public sphere. In the second, documentary part of the project, she focused on recording various ways of representing mountain landscapes in different (non)mountaineering contexts, emphasizing their constructed nature.
What I enjoyed most about this exhibition is how Sanja portrayed representations of mountain landscapes. For example, there’s a chipped piece of rock (visible right in the center of the upper image). What I mean by how she depicted it is that she chose to photograph this piece in what is clearly an art studio or a space designed for photoshoots. These photographs of representations almost resemble product photography.
