Vanja Bučan: "Uncanny Landscapes" Lunch Time Tour und Book Signing

The Leica Gallery Vienna invites you to Lunch Time Tour and Book Signing in the exhibition" Uncanny Landscapes "with the artist Vanja Bučan.

Photos series "Sequences of Truth and Deception" positions the photographer Vanja Bučan human body in front of or in photographic backdrops that show an intact nature. The photographer wants to demonstrate the tension between idealization and dominance. Bučan's pictures are carefully staged: it complements and changes the original image through human gestures and poses. This creates a fiction that imparts its point of view of anthropocentrism. Man in the center. Man in apparent interaction with nature. However, always cut off from her. You don't have to know that Vanja Bučan has been an environmental activist since her youth. But it helps.

"We love nature in a romantic way, we idealize it at the same time. We exploit it and aestheticize them. In my pictures I show the relationship between parts of the body - mostly hands - and nature. You don't know whether it is love or dominance," says the photographer. Holland, where she studied documentary photography at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in the Hague. After completing her studies, she photographed reports for environmental initiatives, but more and more removed from documentary photography and started working with productions. She has been living in Berlin since 2012. In Austria in 2023 the photographer's work was on the facade of the ring tower and most recently as part of the exhibition "Touch Nature" in the Lentos Museum Linz.

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