David Nez: The Wheel, from Hypnagogia series / Cave of Phantoms
kinetic installation
canopy of the NLB bank building; Republic Square, Ljubljana // until 20 June
OPENING: Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 9:30 p.m.

In addition to a large-scale installation in one of the rooms of the Vžigalica Gallery, David Nez is also presenting an outdoor work under a canopy: The Wheel is a smaller assemblage, a kinetic sculpture, composed of a discarded bicycle rim with spokes and a piece of scrap metal, cut in the shape of a runner. With the human figure trapped in a circuit of tireless spinning in the wind, pierced by the spokes, it is hard to avoid associative accents that emphasise the cyclical nature of life and its monotony, the hopeless entrapment of the modern individual into the matrix of everyday life. The work, which belongs to the artist’s Hypnagogia series, is a concise manifestation of the contrast between life as an idealistic promise of freedom and entrapment in meaningless and absurd patterns of repetition.

Partner: Nova ljubljanska banka d. d.