15. 7. – 31. 7. 2022

To Move the Sun and Earth Away is a photographic and sound project exploring the human perception of the environment – how we comprehend it, its deceptions, and how deeply is rooted our sense of otherness in relation to nature. Otherness is ubiquitous and its latent effects have a huge impact on our culture and power structures. How biased is our perspective on the environment and its past? A question like this prompted another, and another, until I found myself contemplating the issues such as discovering the truth, living in denial and fear, as well as the reasons for detachment. One of the key ideas behind this work is the concept of dualism – a stance of clear distinction and separation between two entities. The physical form of installation developed from this idea, i.e., questioning the significance and bias originating from omnipresent dualisms, such as truth vs. falsity, hiding vs. revealing, accepting vs. avoiding & denying, and fact vs. fiction.

Jošt Dolinšek (1997, Slovenia) is a visual artist primarily interested in art photography. In 2020, he earned a BA in psychology at the University of Ljubljana. Currently he is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he studies photography at HDK-Valand. Dolinšek mainly works on long-term projects, exploring the visual experience of the environment and his relation to it. He is interested in various approaches to photographic art, combining it with other media, such as sound and installation. In 2018, he exhibited and published his series In Between under the If Slovenia Were project. Dolinšek was one of the selected artists in the 3rd cycle of Parallel Photo Platform. Among others, he has exhibited his works in Robert Capa Center in Budapest (HU), Photon Gallery in Ljubljana (SI) and Vienna (AT), at Voies-off Festival in Arles (FR), Charta Festival in Rome (IT) and Landskrona Foto Festival (SE). In 2021, he presented his series To Move the Sun and Earth Away in the Curiosa sector at ParisPhoto (FR).