”The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more." Douglas Huebler

The exhibition ’SLALOM’ takes place at this moment in time, when artists are obligated to honestly examine the limitations of the medium in which they create, while simultaneously questioning methods of experiencing a work of art in a direct, captivating and sensual manner.
All the exhibiting artists came of age surrounded by screens — television screens, computer screens, gameboys,and cellular phones. All these are not only leisure amusements, they are our memories, vocabularies, our fantasies and anxieties. They are visual and psychological elements
composed of pixels or tiny lights.
The experience of life is such that we have a body and it has physical needs such a sleep, food and movement, and in contrast we have the virtual and textual existence that the screen offers the eyes, the soul and the mind. Our gaze seeks the photograph and is drawn to it through
every possible screen — through signage, through linked typography, printed or pasted, from far away on the other side of the world or up close in the privacy of our bed.
And the body? Although we live in it and we will always be subjugated to it, it does not get much satisfaction from the screen (perhaps only through the stimulation of the brain, but this is an only an indirect stimulus). This is the conflict that every human being in the western world and almost all world societies deal with.
This conflict is what calls the artists to action. How can we bring this dissonance to the surface, give it expression and exhibit art that undermines the limitations of the screen, the photograph and the bodyless stare? These artists attempt to inspect the photographic material, break apart its basic components and explore what remains, to create a world of fantasy that is composed of traces of reality and to touch matter that is antimatter.