Sense

Manja Zore is a rising young talent in the world of creative
photography. She likes to look as any good photographer must.  Photography is about witness, the gaze, and
the inevitable voyeuristic act of partaking vicariously in the other's
drama.  Manja's preoccupation with the
body, its subtle parts and the interaction of these from one to another, drives
her curiosity.  She is getting off on
something!  Perhaps, it is the subtle
caress of the camera and its click -- intrusion into intimacy.  For it is the still photographs ability to
capture a moment which defies any kind of literal coding and yet signals a
feeling that stimulates the viewer to look.
Manja's talent lies in her ability to titillate.  She suggests scenarios and narratives about a
relationship that we all would like to experience. It does not matter whether
she has been a faithful witness to something real or that she fabricated and
staged each frame.  What does matter is
that she has manifested a visual equivalent for our own sexual drive for
intimacy. Ironically, nothing is very explicit and all the expressions of the
great sensual quality of all these images lie in simple gestures and the
juxtaposition of erotic shapes.
Red is at the core of her palate. 
It drives the pictures, suggests the passion, and even the potential for
violence that exists in every intimacy. It looms out at you, drawing you into
the emotion of a love affair.  It is very
seductive and yet a warning to the viewer that something  could go awry.  Touch the silk slip or the puckered lips if
you must, but remember there will be consequences.  Hence without really telling us any
specifics, Manja has managed to create an edgy story in each of her
frames.  A story which prompts us to
bring our own experiences of the symbolic meaning of red to the photographic
act.
Charles H. Traub (Chairperson - School of
Visual Arts, New York)

Her photography project for Cankarjev Dom is composed of two parts:
twenty photographs from the Handsome series, the message and final purpose of
which is the idea of beauty in the form of an emotion, and the latest series of
photographs taken with the polaroid transfer technique, which is based on a
complete fabrication of reality and an exchange of the beauty of the seen for
the aesthetics of the personal.

Production and organisation: Cankarjev dom
In cooperation with Mesto žensk/ City of Women