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Lucija Rosc
Organ Vida’s FUTURES selection for 2024 is based on a group of photographers and visual artists working in the broader regional context of former Yugoslavia. Their artistic practices cover a variety of visual approaches which document, but also speculate about, everyday life and the different possibilities of intimate storytelling. For Eva Bevec, everyday is captured in the homely setting full of absurdity and curiosity. David Bakarić Mihaljević documents his personal, everyday life narrated as a generational perspective on growing up in the imaginary space where digital and fictional worlds collide. In Lucija Rosc’s practice, everyday family life is fictionalised, further questioning the role of memory through the playful staging of reality. Petra Slobodnjak is a participant-observer of the communal living experience which translates the spontaneity of shared everyday life situations. And Pavle Banović offers a diary format of everyday life spent in New York, where their camera gaze intertwines with other protagonists they encounter along the way.
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Natalie Malisse (b. 1998) is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels. She graduated from ESA “Le 75” (BE) and holds a master’s degree from KASK, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE).
Through image and text, her practice explores the vulnerabilities and layers that shape our identities, navigating traumatic memory, mental health, disability, and gender inequalities.
Malisse is the recipient of the residency awarded by the Friends of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+). Her work has been exhibited in Belgium and France, including at the Photography Museum in Charleroi, Festival OFF Arles, Circulation(s) Festival, the Centre Photographique Hôtel Fontfreyde, and Prix Médiatine. Her pictures will be presented in 2026 at FOMU (BE), Cultuurcentrum Hasselt (BE), and the Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (FR).
"La grande maison", published by les éditions du Caïd, is her first book.
Ángel Luis González Fernández is a designer, artist, and curator supporting engaging visual arts practices, winner of Business to Arts David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards 2011.
His work manifests through PhotoIreland, which he founded in 2010 to stimulate a critical dialogue on Photography. He devises curatorial projects placing conversations in the public realm around visual culture, critical thinking. These include events (PhotoIreland Festival, Halftone Print Fair, arts residency How to Flatten a Mountain, and New Irish Works), a cultural hub (The Library Project: Ireland’s Art bookshop, host to a unique resource library of photobooks and a productive arts programme), publishing projects that distribute inexpensive access to local practices, research projects (Critical Academy: examining contemporary art practices). He works collaboratively with a growing network of organisations, noticeably through ambitious Creative Europe partnerships.
During the Summer 2020 lockdown he launched the critical publication OVER Journal, now distributed globally. He received the Arts Council of Ireland’s Visual Arts Bursary to deepen research on the broad historical and specific artistic context of Photography in Ireland, to curate an ambitious survey exhibition in PhotoIreland Festival 2022 and to publish a series of publications on the matter. He regularly contributes to publications such as the forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies, edited by Lucy Soutter, Duncan Wooldridge.
See some of his Graphic and Web Design work in the 100 Design Archive.
Iveta Gabaliņa (1979) is a curator, artist and educator. She has studied photography at the studio of Andrejs Grants, at Bournemouth Art Institute, and in the MA programme at Alto University in Helsinki. Her work has been exhibited in Latvia and internationally, including at C/O (Berlin, Germany), GESTE (Paris), and Williams Tower Gallery (Houston, USA). Gabaliņa has participated in photography festivals in Singapore, Hanover, and elsewhere. Her work is included in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Geste Paris, and the Deutsche Börse Art Collection.
Since 2008 she has been part of ISSP team, responsible for numerous educational and curatorial projects. In 2018 she founded ISSP Gallery - an exhibition space dedicated to contemporary photography.
I’ve always loved photography, even if it sounds like a cliche. The first photos I took, I did without knowing how to do that, without paying any attention to framing, subject or composition. After a while, I began to understand what is happening in the space between me as a photographer and the subject I was photographing. And many years later, I also understood why I love to photograph. To communicate. A message, a concept, an emotion.
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