Eva Sajovic's solo exhibition, hanging by a thread, presents a cross-section of her artistic and civil society activities over the past five years, when her work focused on pressing environmental issues. Today, modern global society inevitably faces the phenomenon of accelerated climate change, which has direct or indirect consequences on people's daily lives, causing, among other things, migration, ideological violence and changes in the field of work.
An exhibition of the Suspension of the thread is focused on the three of the existing continuous-part of the year in 2015, with a variety of likovnimi, performativnimi and teaching approaches tend to focus on the phenomenon of increasing climate instability and the associated environmental initiatives: Ecology, Picturing the Climate, and All Rise for the Planet. In addition, Sajovic created a completely new work especially for the exhibition at the Bozidar Jakac Gallery, which relates to aspects of local ecology and coexistence with the environment. For many years, the artist has interwoven art, anthropology, citizen journalism and ecology in her practice, with the aim of pointing out the unsustainability of today's prevailing principles of continuous growth in production and consumption, as well as the perniciousness of the dominance of economic interests over human and environmental ones. In the lapidarium, she created an ambient "site-specific" installation, where her engaged works are presented in a way of a holistic layout, in which photography, moving image and spatial installation are intertwined.
The exhibition is part of the international network Overvie effect, which connects many museums and institutions from around the world and addresses the links between contemporary art and environmental issues, through the initiative of curators Zorana Eri / Msub and Blanca de la Torre.
Eva Sajovic (1976) is an artist and pedagogue who is currently a full professor at the art schools of the Camber Modulell College of Arts and Chelsea College of Arts in London, and also works as an academic researcher, environmental activist and independent artist. In her artistic practice, she focuses on the pressing social themes of modern times, primarily climate change and its impact on life on the planet, and the issue of social stratification and migration.
Curator: Miha Colner
Photo: Jaka Babnik
Samostojna razstava Eve Sajovic z naslovom Visenje na nitki predstavlja presek njenega umetniškega in civilnodružbenega delovanja v preteklih petih letih, ko se je v svojem ustvarjanju v največji meri posvečala perečim okoljskim problematikam. Sodobna globalna družba se danes neizogibno sooča s pojavom pospešenih klimatskih sprememb, ki imajo posredne ali neposredne posledice na vsakdanja življenja ljudi, saj med drugim povzročajo migracije, ideološko nasilje in spremembe na področju dela.
Razstava Visenje na nitki se osredotoča na tri obstoječa kontinuirana dela, ki se od leta 2015 z različnimi likovnimi, performativnimi in izobraževalnimi prijemi osredotočajo na pojav naraščajoče klimatske nestabilnosti in s tem povezanih okoljskih iniciativ: Ecology, Picturing Climate in All Rise for the Planet. Poleg tega je Sajovic posebej za razstavo v Galeriji Božidar Jakac ustvarila povsem novo delo, ki se navezuje na vidike lokalne ekologije in sobivanja z okoljem. Umetnica v svoji praksi že vrsto let prepleta umetnost, antropologijo, državljansko novinarstvo in ekologijo, s čemer želi opozarjati na nevzdržnost danes prevladujočih principov nenehne rasti produkcije in potrošnje ter na pogubnost prevlade ekonomskih interesov nad človeškimi in okoljskimi. V lapidariju je ustvarila ambientalno »site-specific« instalacijo, kjer so njena angažirana dela predstavljena v na način celostne postavitve, v kateri se prepletajo fotografija, gibljiva slika in prostorska instalacija.
Razstava je del mednarodne mreže Overview Effect, ki na iniciativo kuratorjev Zorana Erića (MSUB) in Blance de la Torre povezuje številne muzeje in institucije s celega sveta in obravnava povezave med sodobno umetnostjo in okoljskimi vprašanji.
Eva Sajovic (1976) je umetnica in pedagoginja, ki je trenutno redna profesorica na umetniških šolah Camberwell College of Arts in Chelsea College of Arts v Londonu, prav tako pa deluje tudi kot akademska raziskovalka, okoljska aktivistka in neodvisna umetnica. V svoji umetniški praksi se posveča perečim družbenim temam sodobnega časa, v prvi vrsti klimatskim spremembam in njihovem vplivu na življenje na planetu ter vprašanju družbene razslojenosti in migracij.
Kustos: Miha Colner
Foto: Jaka Babnik
