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This Situation Has Developed Over a Long Time
Year
2021
With
Nina Goropečnik, Pia Louwerens and Urška Aplinc
Where
exhibition at ŠKUC gallery, Ljubljana
Doings
exhibiting, publishing

From the exhibition text, by Urška Aplinc:

With the exhibition, we are trying to open up a space for reflection on the conventions of setting up exhibitions and the conditions to which we thereby agree. In order to be able to declare anything at all in the field of the visible, we have to mimic the strategies that already exist, to appropriate them, not in spite of, but because of the forces in the field of art. If we use and work with what is already available to us in the institution, then we re-appropriate the framework of the exhibition and think about how we can populate the space to perhaps allow for other approaches to creating areas of visibility. In addition to the space itself, the artists primarily tackle the discursive level – the context of the Škuc Gallery that they enter and address. To do this, they use means such as stemming from the remnants of the previous exhibition, using design templates from the gallery, exposing parts of the archive and creating programmes, such as a residential programme, that the gallery does not otherwise have. In a sense, this reverses the logic of making visible, as the institution in addition to the practices of the artists themselves, also begins to exhibit itself.