Anna Pechar's work follows the hidden layers of knowledge that people have formed in close harmony with nature, and disappears with those who lived it. The fragments preserved in the testimony records are what survives the entropy of the present, in the optical communication channel of the oriented perception and the consequent cognition. The syntropic interpretation of reality teaches us that entropy is sooner or later an attribute of man, possibly an element of self-understood Free Will, which sees outside itself the tendency of chaos, degeneration, evil and slowly the trinity of the latter, again with the help of the mirror of nature, extremely hesitantly recognizing as a property of man. The inspiration of the current corpus of video works and photographs goes back to the author's study of the verbal and pictorial materials of Pavel Medvescko, to his collection of testimonies of the Old Believers of the Posos Slovenes. The selected filming locations follow the places in the narratives.
This time the space of the artist's visual ambience is the kostanjevica monastery church Studenec St. Mary. In the watery environment of the Krka River, the name of the Church of the monastery echoes the gifts of the place. The fountain, as an attribute of Mary, is one that, fed in the older layers of culture, mainly related to sexuality and fertility, centers around the available, refreshing, living water, essential for life and well-being. The author, intentionally or not, created an atmosphere that dramas the lines of force of the place. She challenged the former building of worship, now dedicated to art, with the flickering of a watery, suggestively golden glow inside the space.
Filed To: Petra Kapsh
Photo: Tomaz Grdin, GBJ archive
Delo Ane Pečar sledi skritim plastem vednosti, ki so jo ljudje uobličili v tesnem sožitju z naravo, in izginja s tistimi, ki so jo živeli. Drobci, ohranjeni v zapisih pričevanj, so tisto, kar preživi entropijo sedanje, v optični komunikacijski kanal naravnane zaznave in posledične spoznave. Sintropična interpretacija stvarnosti nas uči, da je entropija slej ko prej atribut človeka, morebiti element samopašno razumljene svobodne volje, ki zunaj sebe uzira tendenco kaosa, degeneracijo, zlo in počasi trojico slednjega, zopet s pomočjo zrcala narave, izredno obotavljivo prepoznava kot lastnost človeka. Inspiracija aktualnega korpusa video del in fotografij sega v avtoričino preučevanje besednih in slikovnih gradiv Pavla Medveščka, v njegov zbir pričevanj Staroverstva posoških Slovencev. Izbrane lokacije snemanj sledijo krajem v pripovedih.
Tokratni prostor umetničinega vizualnega ambienta je kostanjeviška samostanska cerkev Studenec svete Marije. V vodnatem okolju reke Krke poimenovanje cerkve samostana odzvanja danosti kraja. Studenec kot atribut Marije je tisti, ki se, napajajoč se v starejših slojih kulture, povezanih predvsem s seksualnostjo in plodnostjo, osredišča okrog razpoložljive, osvežujoče, žive vode, nujne za življenje in blagostanje. Avtorica je, namerno ali ne, ustvarila atmosfero, ki drami silnice kraja. Nekdanje bogoslužno poslopje, zdaj namenjeno umetnosti, je izzvala z migotanjem vodnatega, sugestivno zlatega sija znotraj prostora.
Besedilo: Petra Kapš
Foto: Tomaž Grdin, arhiv GBJ
