JAKA KOMAC: Hopscotch
light installations
Salendrova Street / Gosposka Street, Breg, Erjavčeva Street, Ferrant’s Garden / Gregorčičeva Street // until 14 June
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.

The project is part of the series of spatial interventions titled Crazy Spaces, taking place since 2024. Fluorescent chalk spray is used to create the playing fields, visually resonating with the collective memory of play. The placement of collective ‘readymade’ play into spatial disturbances, so that it disrupts and re-contextualises the urban environment, is of key importance. Urban infrastructure (poles, fences, billboards and the like) defines our movement with blocking or redirecting, thereby delineating our user space. By situating hopscotch patterns across such elements, the project challenges predetermined spatial arrangements and ideological boundaries, from poorly placed obstacles to private property and national borders. /J. Komac/

JAKA KOMAC (1997) is completing his undergraduate studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Ljubljana (AVA). In his practice, he explores current and potential social situations where the virtual meets the physical and tackles the issues of work, production and digital technologies. With the help of media, adapted to individual projects – from interactive installations to set design and video – he creates light works of art that establish a dialogue with the viewers. He presented his work at various exhibitions at home and abroad.

Special thanks to: TAM-TAM, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)