Robert Sochacki: Border [of]Passage
light installation
Mitnica @ Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana (NTF, UL), Snezniska/Askerceva // until 20. June
OPENING: Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 9:30 p.m.

A new project by the Polish artist Robert Sochacki, exhibited in the disused custom house next to the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, on Aškerčeva Street, thematises the relationship between gaze, power and presence or visibility. According to the artist, the aim of this project – which addresses the fundamental rights of existence and movement – is, above all, to problematise the institutional mechanisms of control. The concept of the border as a physical divide is conceived in the project as an intangible interface, a space for negotiation and resistance, where the subject maintains his or her invisibility by means of a special lighting. That is to say, the employed light sources disrupt the usual colour spectrum and affect the viewer’s perception: the monochromatic environment destabilises conventional perception, whereby the rejection of transparency is introduced as a conscious aesthetic and, simultaneously, political strategy.

ROBERT SOCHACKI (1971, Gdańsk, Poland) is an artist, researcher and teacher, working in the fields of multimedia AV installations, performance, scenography and VJing. His works have been featured at numerous international festivals and in public and institutional spaces across Europe; he also develops projects in public spaces in Africa and South America. He is a lecturer at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław and has also taught at the academy in Gdańsk. Since 2018, he has held the research and educational series Light as a Creative Tool. In addition to his artistic practice and teaching, he conducts workshops that combine practice with social engagement and philosophical reflection. He is a member and a co-founder of NOKS collective.