Solo exhibition in the gallery, at "Sodni stolp"
December 22, 2023
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition features three spatial installations and several individual works that explore various human emotional states. The spatial installation New Birds and the relief Gray Raptors are pieces based on the artist's understanding of Dane Zajc's poem Black Boy. In her visual interpretation, she preserves the surreal images imagined by the poet to express his inner states, altering them according to her vision. In the poem, the predominant emotional state is understood to be a sense of entrapment. Black Girl is a mosaic with which, as indicated by its title, the artist suggests her identification with the poet's feelings of being trapped in creation. The work is a portrait of her process with ceramics. The creation process is also emphasized in the installation The Third Report on Creation, where the viewer catches a glimpse of the artist's fictional studio.
Meanwhile, the upper floor of the gallery, with the spatial arrangement of figures, transforms into a café space where regular patrons sit. From sitting, they morph into the chairs they sit on and the tables from which they sometimes drink too much, and vice versa. The chairs they sit on daily transform into themselves. In their interactions, we recognize various interpersonal relationships, as well as people's relationships with objects, their addictions, and the associated problems in which they are trapped.
LINKS
- Link to the event announcement on the Minoriti website: https://www.minoriti.si/razstave/ujetost