Jaka Teršek

#1 min Jaka Teršek

18. 9. 2025

Jaka Teršek, Owl, Fox, Hedgehog, Deer (2023–ongoing)
Jaka Teršek, Owl, Fox, Hedgehog, Deer (2023–ongoing)
#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv
Owl, Fox, Hedgehog, Deer (2023–ongoing)

The series of photographs Owl, Fox, Hedgehog, Deer (2023–ongoing) is an exploration by photographer Jaka Teršek of memory, place, and belonging. The work stems from childhood recollections of forests and games of hide-and-seek around his relatives’ farm. Now living in the city, the artist reflects on a growing sense of disconnection from the world he once imagined as his home, a world of pitch-dark nights smelling of freshly cut grass.

Alongside the photographs, Teršek writes short stories inspired by real events, revisiting familiar landscapes and rituals rooted in his hometown in eastern Slovenia. The interplay between text and image maps a personal geography shaped by memory and distance. The series becomes both a return and a departure: a way of observing, recording, and reflecting on what it means to inhabit a place while being acutely aware of the privilege of leaving it, too.

 

FALSE FRIENDS  
October 4–12, 2025  
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Opening · October 6, 2025 · 7:00 p.m.  
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Venue · Petrohradská Kolektiv  
Jedna Dva Tři Gallery  
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Hours · 10:00–18:00

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektivFalse Friends

Jaka Teršek

is a Slovenian photographer and filmmaker living in Ljubljana. His work explores topics such as national identity, mythology, and the relationship between geography and human culture. He was selected as a finalist in the Blurring The Lines competition, organized by Paris College of Art in 2022. His series, Owl, Fox, Hedgehog, Deer was shortlisted for the PhMuseum Photography Grant 2023 and received an honorable mention from the Innovative Artist Grants in 2023. He has exhibited his work in numerous group exhibitions, including FOMU Antwerp, Gallery Artget Belgrade, Plečnik House Gallery, Gallery DobraVaga in Ljubljana and UGM Maribor. He holds a BA in photography from Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana and an MA from Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.  

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

False Friends

#4 min Fotograf Zone

False Friends

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv

Language shapes our world, influences our thoughts, and reflects our societies. In the context of the Balkans, specifically the former Yugoslavia, a region marked by shared histories and divergent narratives, language can both include and exclude. Through the concept of “false friends”, words that appear similar but differ in meaning, this exhibition explores how identity, politics, and cultural memory echo in the language we use, and vice versa. Simply put, we often speak of what we believe are the same notions, not realising we understand them differently. These deceptively familiar terms thus become symbols of regional complexities, miscommunication, and broader cultural and historical tensions.