Passages are symbols of a museum, an institution which manifests the passing of time, historical ages, life periods, yearly cycles … in between the material, the social and the spiritual.

 

AVA presents five installations made by students of three generations. The selected projects convey individual character of every single artist, which show through different approaches to the subject of passage, as well as to lighting, form and their contexts. Each installation is dealing with light in its own way, with the passages from darkness to light and the other way around, and the relationship between shadow and light during the day.

 

Ana Jagodic: The Third Rule – This interactive installation is composed of glass balls mounted against a transparent screen; it is based on the research of physical laws of the universe that function on the principle of action-reaction. Gregor Maver: Liberal Utopia – Video installation based on light and its absence, which enables a real-time ‘concurrent existence’ in different time zones and symbolic passages from one continent to another. Matej Marinček: Genesis – The artist searches for passages in the advancement of our consciousness and in relation to history and culture; this advancement is represented by balls arranged in order of height and an evolving human figure momentarily exposed inside of them by means of photo-flash. Danijela Danica Tepeš: From Where to Where? – This interactive object in the form of a cube reflects its surroundings; lit with light it is almost invisible, merged with its environment. Neca Falk: Passage – Video installation placed at the entrance to the museum; it allows for the duality of passage, both in the metaphysical sense as well as in actual, physical passing from one reality to another.

 

Co-produced by AVA and Slovene Ethnographic Museum. The project is part of the Museum Summer Night.