The exhibition presents the works of three artists and an art group from Slovenia, who consistently and long-term devote themselves to the relationship between man and nature in their creative practices. The selected works bring a deep reflection on human intervention in the natural environment and on the current socio-political and economic structure based on the principle of growth of production and consumption.
In the Lapidarium, the thematically diverse works of the tandem PLATEAURESIDUE, Maya Smrekar, Robertina Shebyanich and Tanya Vujinovi are set in dialogue. Through the means of visual art, these artists devote themselves to current topics of modern times, such as human understanding of the environment, the need to colonize nature and the analysis of environmental policies, which today are still based primarily on the concept of endless modernization. In the history of modern and contemporary art, artists ' reflections on the phenomenon of the natural environment at the level of representation have been present since the emergence of industrial revolutions, but in the past decades some artists have taken a more active role and began to link their creative practices interdisciplinary with science and other fields of social action. This focus is also summarized in the present group exhibition, which presents analytical and engaged creative responses of artists on current topics such as ecology, the consequences of encroachment on space, the relationship between human and non-human, overcoming the culture-nature dualism and the future of the human species.
Curator: Miha Colner
Photo: Jaka Babnik
Razstava predstavlja dela treh umetnic in umetniške skupine iz Slovenije, ki se v svojih ustvarjalnih praksah dosledno in dolgoročno posvečajo odnosu med človekom in naravo. Izbrana dela prinašajo globok premislek o človekovih intervencijah v naravno okolje in o trenutnem družbenopolitičnem in ekonomskem ustroju, ki temelji na principu rasti proizvodnje in potrošnje.
V Lapidariju so v dialog postavljena tematsko raznolika dela tandema PLATEAURESIDUE, Maje Smrekar, Robertine Šebjanič in Tanje Vujinović. Te ustvarjalke in ustvarjalci se s sredstvi vizualne umetnosti posvečajo aktualnim temam sodobnega časa kot so človekovo razumevanje okolja, potreba po kolonizaciji narave in analiza okoljskih politik, ki danes še vedno temeljijo predvsem na konceptu neskončne modernizacije. V zgodovini moderne in sodobne umetnosti so premisleki umetnikov o fenomenu naravnega okolja na ravni reprezentacije prisotni že vse od pojava industrijskih revolucij, a so v preteklih desetletjih nekateri umetniki prevzeli aktivnejšo vlogo in začeli svoje ustvarjalne prakse interdisciplinarno povezovati z znanostjo in drugimi polji družbenega delovanja. To usmeritev povzema tudi pričujoča skupinska razstava, ki predstavlja analitične in angažirane ustvarjalne odzive umetnic in umetnikov na aktualne teme kot so ekologija, posledice poseganja v prostor, razmerje med človeškim in nečloveškim, preseganje dualizma kultura-narava in prihodnost človeške vrste.
Kustos: Miha Colner
Foto: Jaka Babnik
