Starting at 18:00
Long before we challenged modernist paradigms of a linear conception of the world and history, humans have always created bridges between parallel worlds, whether it was the meeting of different cultures or religions that sought to transcend the boundaries between the afterlife and life here on Earth. Visual culture plays a fascinating role in depicting these parallel worlds. In our Western cultures, the term mimesis has been used for centuries to represent the representation or imitation of reality in art. This artistic act becomes even more complex when we enter digital worlds and their visual forms. Primož Bizjak's photographs depict landscapes and cities in large formats, but in fact reveal several layers beyond the nature and architecture depicted, as if the process of photography becomes a "painting" with meanings beyond the recognizable. Robert Gabris's drawings seemingly follow the rules of proportion and perspective and are in fact masterfully executed, even as Gabris leads us through the common mimetic means of art history into a surprisingly seductive world of friction, fantasy and desire. The avatars in Markéta Magid's animated films inhabit a world in which digital characters meet sculptures and other works of art familiar from the analogue environment, all with a critical commentary on society. The depicted objects and motifs from Internet sources are often structural fragments of Anne Neukamp's paintings, in which the artist plays with proximity and distance to seemingly recognizable everyday objects. Sculptures with an erotic charge, paintings and reliefs by Yuli Yamagata are a counterpoint to the idea of a "brave new world". Her work once again takes us beyond the boundaries of rationality towards a world of fantasy and desire. All five artists and their works are united by a poetics of eagerness to capture moments that could make life possible in parallel worlds with fewer frictional surfaces.
Exhibition concept: Gregor Podnar
Curator: Tevž Logar
