Matic Pandel: Plastic Sun

In his artistic practice, Matic Pandel focuses on urban landscapes and everyday scenes in which he finds humour, paying special attention to their materiality, compositions and foregrounded details, all of which enables a different reading of our surroundings in sync with the exhibition as a medium. This is because the showcase is becoming a world unto itself, a world whose distinguishing elements – moulded in the artist's singular visual language – combine to make a completely new landscape. 

Matic Pandel graduated in photography from the Faculty of Applied Sciences VIST in Ljubljana in 2018, and is currently pursuing a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He has participated in several group exhibitions at venues that include the DobraVaga Gallery, Photon, Aksiom, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Cirkulacija2, Fotopub Festival and KULA Cetinjska Gallery in Belgrade. In 2019, he won the 5th Zine Vitrine International Zine Open Call, which involved a solo show at Kino Šiška. He belongs to the photo studio and creative space ŠTUDIO, whose members (Nik Erik Neubauer, Lucija Rosc, Bor Cvetko, Jaka Teršek and Anja Smaka) – while employing different approaches to the photographic medium – all share an interest in contemporary photographic practices and creating various personal projects.