A new Eastern Europe arose after 1989. The Iron Curtain disappeared, the street scene changed unrecognizably. Some countries disintegrated, a majority have become members of the European Union. After four decades of Communism, capitalism is the new ideology. Individualism has replaced collectivism, opposition politics is again permitted. The heroic worker has had to become a critical consumer.
As a mirror held up to Behind Walls, a second exhibition, Beyond Walls, provides a picture of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Left opposes right, nostalgia for the old days faces off against the blessings of capitalism. Among the remains of the Communist era - from the gray architecture to the discrimination against ethnic groups - a frantic search for a new identity is going on.
These changes also leave th...
1965 born in Ljubljana. In 2003 a monograph about his work was published by the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts; the essays were written by Marina Gržinić and W.J.T.Mitchell. His works are part of numerous public and private collections. Lives and works as a freelance photographer in Ljubljana....