Rene Maurin

Minor Mythology

Minor Mythology is a series of bright, colourful images featuring portraits of encounters that were, in one way or another, willing to share and explore their intimacy via the photographic medium. These people perhaps struggle unemployment, endure drug rehab, got recently divorced, ponder their age or struggle with other mundane and publicly insignificant trouble. However, my aim was never to express this privacy via easily legible and direct visual language. The images hide petite parables, assembled from the shards of their lives or memories and wrapped in the cellophane of an ancient language. Perhaps small rebuses that yearn to rearrange the mundane and overlooked into something we can't live without - the sense of identity and uniqueness. These modest colourful icons do not debate those matters that might raise anguish or empathy. They strive to be a colourful celebration of peoples presence, life and their minor, albeit fundamental mythology.

Photographer

Rene Maurin

Rene Maurin (*1971) is a Slovene author born in ex-Yugoslavia, rightfully accused of roaming several mediums. He acquired his formal education in United States, Croatia and Slovenia. After graduation in theatre directing he filmed a series of documentaries for the Slovenian National Television and won the attention of audiences and critics with films such as "I saw Elvis!" (1999) and "Life, as from inside" (2000).

He dedicates the next decade to the theatre and takes over Ptuj City Theatre. In this time he directs several performances that reap acclaim and selected awards in Slovenia and abroad. In 2012 he enrolled the master course in film directing at the AGRFT and directed his first fiction film “Bright Black” (2014). Among others, the film received the award for the best academic achievement of University in Ljubljana and toured several prestigious international film festivals.

His photographic work serves as an expression contrasting the narrative treatment of cinematic storytelling and nests in photographic contraction of time and the capacity of uncompromised manifestation of intimate testimonies and visual langue. In 2013 he co-founded the photo-literary zine REBUS. He often writes — a common habit of directors and lectures at the Institute of Media Communication at the University of Maribor.

He chiefly lives and works in Maribor, Slovenia.

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