Just as with the project Galapagos, Damijan Kracina and Vladimir Leben have joined their imaginative tendencies and created a wholly new habitat, which this time in not related to a remote island reserve, but to a world of dark depths. This environment is disclosed in a darkened circular panorama where only a flickering light that moves along the edges of the panorama reveals for short moments the recreated flora and fauna. It is the same principle as with the first cave explorers discovering the cave paintings with the light of a torch, or with the batiskaf with its beams of light from its headlights in the deep depths of the sea. The visitor enters the center of the circle, dimmed in a cave-like darkness, while only a weak flicker of moving light, his only guide in the darkness, enables him to perceive the recreated world around him. There is only one safety caveat the visitor needs to take into account while entering and leaving the installation, which is, just as with spelunking: “Watch your head” (Jani Pirnat)

The painter Vladimir Leben (1971) has been independently exhibiting his works since 1991. He became an active member of the ‘Too modern movement” in 2001. This movement in the same year debuted in the Alkatraz gallery and opened its own Museum of too modern art in Spodnji Hotič pri Litiji in 2004. Leben co-created the series of short animated films Bizgeci and the animated film Vonj ljubezni. His biography includes a long list of independent exhibitions, projects and international collaborations, like the XXV Biennale de Sao Paulo, Iconografias Metropolitanas (2004), Artisti giovani per la pace, Arci Nova, Trst (1993), Mediteranski bienale mladih in Reka (1993) etc.