Zagreb Photo Biennial Exhibition
Gallery ULUPUH, Ilica 13/1, Zagreb
April 6th – 20th, 2024

"ESCAPISM AS A THEME emphasizes the need to move away from the real world into the safety and comfort of artistic intent. In art, there are no boundaries and everything is allowed is a premise that is often repeated, but this applies only to that part of photographic work in which deadlines, the client and the commissioned content that brings in income from which one lives are not the focus of interest. In a consumer society, escapism as an experience often becomes a luxury tied to the concept of time and an unconventional form of exclusivity based on the aesthetics of image, sound and the written word. The strategies of daily survival of a professional photographer find their escape from reality in freedom of expression and art.."
Draženka Jalšić Ernečić

https://fotografija.ulupuh.hr/hr/vizura/vizura-2024-eskapizam/

The photograph from the Into the Woods series transforms the forest into a fluid space of colour, light, and movement, detached from a literal representation of reality. Through intentional blur, the scene becomes a place of immersion and inner calm—a visual escape from the noise of everyday life into a protected, almost imaginary realm of nature.