Klemen Skubic (1982, Ljubljana) has created several complete series in his ten years of professional activity in the photographic medium. His work has been presented at photo festivals in Arles (France) and Tbilisi (Georgia), as well as in solo and group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad, including at the Librarie Photographique in Paris, the Rotund Centre in Koper, the House of Culture in Kamnik and the Huiu Gallery in Pula (Croatia). He has participated in two projects, “Estrangement” and “If Slovenia Were”, conceived and directed by photographer and curator Klavdij Sluban. He lives and works in Ljubljana.
The photographs exhibited at Krško Gallery were taken over a long period of time. They are fragments of the artist's wanderlust through Moldova, fleeting shots of here and there, and snippets of the most intimate events in the shelter of the family cell. The exhibition thematically explores the relationship between child and parent, but the narrative is not revealed to us directly from the images. Instead, the photographer works with visually associative elements and metaphors, following a photographic narrative that sometimes seems autobiographical – which the artist does not deny – but which does nevertheless not mean that he is illustrating his life. So if we want to dissect the content of the exhibition, we can consider the photographs as a photo-reportage diary of the artist's life, consisting of landscapes, still lifes, street portraits and family shots. Skubic's photographs, however, cannot be defined as reportage, since stylistically they move between loosely documentary and expressive records of the artist's individual experiences and his sensitive engagement with the outside world.
