multimedia light installation
Vžigalica Gallery (Match Gallery) // until 30 August
OPENING: Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 9:30 p.m.

David Nez’s multimedia installation features a spatially saturated cacophony of diverse (moving) images, sounds and kinetic elements, whose primary common denominator is theosophically inspired shamanistic ideas that the artist has studied and which have strongly influenced his work in his mature period. Hypnagogia, the grey zone of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, transforms in Nez’s interpretation into a vast atmospheric concept, an ecstatic cabinet of curiosities, where the rich tradition of esoteric heritage intersects with a dystopian vision of modernity, marked by environmental and spiritual crisis. Animal species, extinct due to human arrogance, appear as phantom beings, by means of which Nez primarily questions the actions and (future) fate of humanity as the ruler of the world. According to the author, the main focus of the placement centres on the theme of altered states of consciousness as a means of individual awakening in an era of manipulative media and online brainwashing.

DAVID NEZ (1949, Massachusetts, USA), a former member of neo-avant-garde group OHO, graduated from the Academy of Fine arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, during his stay in Slovenia in 1972. Upon returning to the USA, he attended the Maryland Institute, where he completed his MA in painting. Later, he studied art therapy at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque. He has held several solo exhibitions at prestigious museums and galleries in the USA and around the world. Among other things, he is the author of a study on shamanic and esoteric traditions in the Western world (The Tree of Visions, Starseed Publications, 2018). He lives and works in Slovenia.

Co-production: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML)
Opening times: Tuesday—Sunday: 12:00 a.m.–11:30 p.m. (until 20 June); 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. (21 June–30 August)