The headquarters of the EU's mission to the United Nations in New York are traditionally artistically adorned by the presiding country. For the next six months the premises in Manhattan will bear life-sized images of what photographer Aleksandra Vajd associates with life in Slovenia.
Upon inspecting the premises, Vajd came up with an idea of what she calls "living walls", a display in which her photographies make part of the background and in this way part of the space in which they are set.
Vajd's objective was to make a reconstruction of 20 years of life, snapshots evoking memories through identifying elements, such as the mountains represent for Slovenians.
The image that has proved to be the most popular with EU ambassadors and the staff working at the mission is a perfect life-size shot of a door, which has been labelled as an entry to a "secret room".
The "Custom Made" project was organised by the Foreign Ministry through the Consulate General in New York and the Slovenian mission in the UN in cooperation with company Luminus.
Vajd (1971) has had her photographies exhibited in Slovenia as well as in Prague, Sarajevo and Bratislava, and has been featured at a number of group exhibitions in the neighbouring countries, Poland and Germany.
She also displayed her works as part of a group show "Relative Closeness" in the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago in June 2007. The artist lives between Ljubljana and Prague.
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