Exhibition: A Silent Gaze at Ars

Klavdij Sluban (1963) is a French photographer with Slovene roots. The creator of a rigorous and coherent body of work that is nourished by literature, never by immediate or sensational events, he questions the contemporary world through a strongly personal photographic narrative that is dark yet poetic. His long-term projects explore places where time and space are condensed: countries scarred by history, islands, prisons and so on. Since 1995 he has been photographing teenagers in prisons around the world. He has exhibited worldwide and has won numerous awards for his work – among them the Prix de Photographie de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2015 and the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2004.

The exhibition brings together some of the images created by photographer Klavdij Sluban during his year-long residency at Radio Ars. His forays behind the scenes of radio are an organic continuation of the artistic series he has created in previous years. Using an analogue Leica camera from 1969 and acting as a silent, almost invisible presence, Sluban has created an exhibition that reveals his distinctly personal view of the various processes involved in the creation of arts radio. His residency at Ars is an entirely original project by the photographer. In it, he explores how infinite creations, in this case radio airwaves, emerge from closed and limited spaces. It therefore acts as a kind of homage to a radio station of which he is a regular listener.