Matevž Čebašek

𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿! 💥 A exploração da memória e identidade sob a luz de um diagnóstico de Alzheimer. Através de histórias familiares e materiais de arquivo, o artista @cebasekm reflete sobre a memória subjetiva, a história coletiva e as diferentes formas de recordar e compreender o outro. Ao longo do dia de hoje, Matevž irá partilhar algumas curiosidades sobre “In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining”, que lhe valeu o prémio Encontros da Imagem Award 2025. Fica atento a este takeover! Relembramos que as candidaturas para o prémio Encontros da Imagem Award 2026 está abertas até domingo (10 de maio). [𝗘𝗡] An exploration of memory and identity in the context of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Through family stories and archival materials, the artist Matevž Čebašek reflects on subjective memory, collective history, and the different ways of remembering and understanding others. Throughout today, Matevž will share some interesting facts about “In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining,” which earned him the Encontros da Imagem Award 2025. Stay tuned for this takeover! Friendly reminder: submissions for the Encontros da Imagem Award 2026 are open until sunday, May 10th. © Matevž Čebašek — In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining #takeover #matevzcebasek #encontrosdaimagem #encontrosdaimagemfestival

✨ Rencontre(s) avec Matevž Čebašek Tout au long du festival, découvrez les 24 projets présentés cette année à Circulation(s) à travers la voix des artistes. L’occasion de découvrir plus en détail leurs univers et d’en apprendre plus sur leurs oeuvres et leurs démarches. « Au cours de ce processus, le projet est devenu bien plus que simplement l’exploration de la démence. C’est devenu une exploration des souvenirs, de leur fragilité et de leur manque de fiabilité ». Matevž Čebašek revient sur le récit très intime qui parcourt sa série « In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining ». Il explique également les parallèles qu’il a pu faire entre la démence de sa grand-mère et l’histoire collective slovène. 🗓️ Les expositions sont ouvertes du mercredi au dimanche de 14h à 19h, jusqu’au 17 mai 📍CENTQUATRE-PARIS 🔗 Rendez-vous dans le lien en bio pour plus d’informations pratiques ! - ✨ Meeting(s) with Matevž Čebašek Throughout the festival, discover the 24 projects presented this year at Circulation(s) through the artists’ voices. This is an opportunity to explore their worlds in greater detail and learn more about their works and creative approaches. «During the process, the project became much more than just the exploration of dementia. It became an exploration of memories, their fragility and unreliability». Matevž Čebašek looks back on the very intimate narrative that walks through his series «In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining». He also explains the parallels he managed to draw between his grandmother’s dementia and the Slovenian collective history. 🗓️ The exhibitions are open Wednesday to Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm, through May 17 📍CENTQUATRE-PARIS 🔗 Check out the link in bio for more practical information! Avec le soutien de l'Ambassade du Royaume des Pays-Bas // With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. @culturepaysbas Avec le soutien de l'Ambassade de la République de Slovénie // With the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia @sloinfra

Happy to share that In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining has been shortlisted for the @phmuseum 2026 Photography Grant.

VENCEDORES PRÉMIOS 🟦 Aí estão os fotógrafos vencedores dos três prémios: Encontros da Imagem, Leituras de Portfólio e Fotolivros. Parabéns a todos os fotógrafos e finalistas! [𝗘𝗡] AWARDS WINNERS 🟦 Here are the winners of the three awards: Encontros da Imagem, Portfolio Reviews, and Photobooks. Congratulations to all the photographers and finalists! Prémio Encontros da Imagem 2025 🟦 Vencedor/Winner: Matevž Čebašek - In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining Prémio Portfólio Reviews 2025 🟦 Vencedor/Winner: Nuno Silva - Enquanto o motivo não me encontrar Prémio Fotolivros 2025 🟦 Melhor Fotolivro: War is Disaster, Menções Honrosas: Tony Dočekal - The Color of Money and Trees Spiros Zervoudakis - Terra incognita Alessandro Mallamaci - Un luogo bello Joanna Tochman - Sunspot Karolina Spolniewski - Hotel of Eternal Light Melhor Maquete: Uta Genilke - SACRE Menções honrosas maquete: Julia Wimmerlin - Down the Rabbit Hole Yufan Lu - Return Andrea Agostini - Nòstos (Homecoming) Alejandra Arévalo Martínez - Blood under the Sundown Light Lei Yang - The Plain Route

PRÉMIOS 🟦 Encontros da Imagem 2025 Em 2025, o Prémio Encontros da Imagem recebeu mais de 400 candidaturas de projetos de vários cantos do mundo. O júri, composto por Barbara Čeferin, Carla Bacelar Ferreira e David Pujado, selecionou cinco finalistas e cujos trabalhos estarão expostos individualmente durante esta edição do festival. O vencedor do prémio será anunciado na Semana de Abertura dos Encontros da Imagem. Para além dos projetos em exposição, foram selecionadas algumas obras de outros artistas que estarão expostas em formato de projeção. Programa completo em [𝗘𝗡] AWARDS 🟦 Encontros da Imagem 2025 In 2025, the Encontros da Imagem Award received more than 400 project submissions from around the world. The jury, composed of Barbara Čeferin, Carla Bacelar Ferreira, and David Pujado, selected five finalists whose works will be exhibited individually during this edition of the festival. The winner of the award will be announced during the Opening Week of Encontros da Imagem. In addition to the projects on display, several works from other artists have been selected for projection. Full program at 𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗦 𝗗𝗔 𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 → 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖̧𝗔̃𝗢 𝗗𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘 🟥

It is on view at the street gallery Na mestu, the exhibition 𝘓𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 the result of a 5-month mentorship program led by @jostfranko . Six early-career Slovenian photographers – ᴍᴀᴛᴇᴠᴢ̌ ᴄᴇʙᴀšᴇᴋ﹐ ᴍᴀɴᴊᴀ ғɪɴᴢ̌ɢᴀʀ﹐ ʟᴀʀᴀ ғʀᴇʟɪʜ﹐ ɴᴀʟ ᴋᴏᴄᴊᴀɴ﹐ ʟᴜᴋᴀ ᴋᴏsᴛᴀɴᴊᴇᴠᴇᴄ﹐ ᴍᴀšᴀ ᴘɪʀᴄ – selected through a free Open Call, developed community-based projects rooted in the stories, people, and places of Kranj, creating meaningful narratives connected to our city. Besides the exhibition at the street gallery, each participant will also have their work in the program of Kranj Foto Fest 2025 presented at six unique spaces across the old town, interconnecting the stories of local communities with the places of our city ▻ Fragmenti, Indija Koromandija, Hostel Cukrarna, Kavarna Khislstein 12.56, Bar Mitnica, and Kavka bar. We warmly thank the people of Kranj who opened their homes and shared their stories with our photographers. Thanks also to the @mestnaknjiznicakranj for hosting the classes, to all exhibition spaces, and to our sponsors and partners, whose support made this fully funded mentorship possible, offered at no cost to participants. 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 @leica_camera_austria @triglavgroup @lon_slovenija 𝗖𝗼-𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘀 @mzk_rs @mestna.obcina.kranj @visitkranj Instituto Guimarães Rosa & Brazilian Embassy @lisztljubljana Polish Embassy 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 & 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 @gorenjski_muzej @stolpskrlovec @mestnaknjiznicakranj @cankarjevdom LOBA Leica @fragmenti_kranj @mitnicakranj @cafepungert @indijakoromandija @kavarna.khislstein @fotokult_ Ringer 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿 𝗞𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗷 𝗙𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁 @photodialogue_ Mentees 2025: @larafrelih @melyzephotography @strikula @lukakostanjevecphoto @em0tio.nal @cebasekm

I'm happy to share that my project In the Mountains, the Sun is Shining will be shown as part of the screening night at the @belgradephotomonth BPM 2025: Screening Night Date: May 10, 2025 Time: 20:00 - 22:00 Location: @bioskopbalkan

Graduation Show 2024 @royalacademyofart.thehague In the mountains, the sun is shining My family faced dementia for the first time in the 1980s, when my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. My grandmother cared for him until he passed away in 2008. She witnessed all the steps of his disease. I can't imagine how frightening and frustrating it must have been, when she found out about her dementia. In the mountains, the sun is shining is an exploration of the fragility and unreliability of memories within the framework of dementia and the post-communist environment. It is a collaborative project with my grandmother living in her ancestral home in Slovenia and aims to create an image of personhood beyond her limitations. It is based on reflections on memory and landscape while exploring their significance in the context of past, present, and future. With the installation, I’m bringing together different perspectives on the past by layering official historical records, familial recollections, and my personal interpretations. I’m posing questions on the subjectivity of history, on how it is recorded and understood. I argue that history can turn out to be a product of imagination to the same extent as memories. Next to that, I draw parallels between the time disorientation of a person with dementia and the belief that the past is ever-present in the now. As Deleuze puts it: “The body is never in the present, it contains the before and the after, tiredness and waiting.”  Through my photographic and cinematic encounters, I’m showing my interpretations of official and unofficial histories that are written and transmitted in my grandmother’s body and landscape. The installation invites the viewer to create their interpretations and connections between the images and texts from the past and present. Installation photos by: Charlotte Brand

In the mountains, the sun is shining (2024) My family faced dementia for the first time in the 1980s, when my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. My grandmother cared for him until he passed away in 2008. She witnessed all the steps of his disease. I can't imagine how frightening and frustrating it must have been, when she found out about her dementia. In the mountains, the sun is shining is an exploration of the fragility and unreliability of memories within the framework of dementia and the post-communist environment. It is a collaborative project with my grandmother living in her ancestral home in Slovenia and aims to create an image of personhood beyond her limitations. It is based on reflections on memory and landscape while exploring their significance in the context of past, present, and future. With the project, I’m bringing together different perspectives on the past by layering official historical records, familial recollections, and my personal interpretations. I’m posing questions on the subjectivity of history, on how it is recorded and understood. I argue that history can turn out to be a product of imagination to the same extent as memories. Next to that, I draw parallels between the time disorientation of a person with dementia and the belief that the past is ever-present in the now. As Deleuze puts it: “The body is never in the present, it contains the before and the after, tiredness and waiting.” Through my photographic and cinematic encounters, I’m showing my interpretations of official and unofficial histories that are written and transmitted in my grandmother’s body and landscape. The installation invites the viewer to create their interpretations and connections between the images and texts from the past and present.

In the mountains, the sun is shining - 18 min (2 minutes excerpt) My family faced dementia for the first time in the 1980s, when my grandfather was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. My grandmother cared for him until he passed away in 2008. She witnessed all the steps of his disease. I can't imagine how frightening and frustrating it must have been, when she found out about her dementia. In the mountains, the sun is shining is an exploration of the fragility and unreliability of memories within the framework of dementia and the post-communist environment. It is a collaborative project with my grandmother living in her ancestral home in Slovenia and aims to create an image of personhood beyond her limitations. It is based on reflections on memory and landscape while exploring their significance in the context of past, present, and future. With the project, I’m bringing together different perspectives on the past by layering official historical records, familial recollections, and my personal interpretations. I’m posing questions on the subjectivity of history, on how it is recorded and understood. I argue that history can turn out to be a product of imagination to the same extent as memories. Next to that, I draw parallels between the time disorientation of a person with dementia and the belief that the past is ever-present in the now. As Deleuze puts it: “The body is never in the present, it contains the before and the after, tiredness and waiting.” Through my photographic and cinematic encounters, I’m showing my interpretations of official and unofficial histories that are written and transmitted in my grandmother’s body and landscape. The installation invites the viewer to create their interpretations and connections between the images and texts from the past and present.

“Matevž! I’m quite good. Every day I go for a walk. Today I was in Preddvor at the pharmacy, I went to get medication. On the way back I went to your mom. She served me nicely. Now I will walk to Zg. Bela. It’s very hard for me because I forget a lot. I’m very grateful to Tomaž and your mom.” The text was written by my grandmother. After more than 20 years of taking care of my grandfather who had Alzheimer’s disease, she is currently struggling with her own dementia. "When the Swallows Don't Come Back" talks about a gradual loss of a loved one, while they are still alive. Through the installation and publication, I'm showing my exploration of presence and absence in relation to the fear and uncertainty of what might come in the future. They are part of a long-term project about the relations between dementia, memory and the medium of photography. Her condition changed drastically only a few months after she wrote the text. @kabkphotography @theviiacademy #dementia #alzheimer #alzheimersassociation #alzheimernederland #photobook #publication

When the Swallows Don't Come Back (2022-) talks about a gradual loss of a loved one, while they are still alive. Through the installation and publication, I'm showing my exploration of presence and absence in relation to the fear and uncertainty of what might come in the future. They are part of a long-term project about the relations between dementia, memory and the medium of photography. @thefool_collective The project was made with help from @kabkphotography and @theviiacademy #demetia #alzheimer #spominčica #alzheimernederland #portrait #portaitphotography #landscape #stilllife #kabkphotography #mediumformat #analogcamera #analogphotography #filmphotography #fujifilm #kodak #120film #bwphotography #fuji #fujifim #4x5