NIKA ERJAVEC: Elusion
light installation
The Match Gallery // until 24 August
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.

The light installation represents the further stage of the exploration of visual noises or perception disturbances that arise as a result of the shift in our brains’ perception of the rapidly changing position of an observed object. Dynamic motion is translated into our consciousness as an information ‘glitch’ or as a split image that evades our gaze. The limits of our perception are further accentuated by the presence of light, which appears in our consciousness as a flickering cool white, although in reality, it is multicoloured. The plants that escape our gaze through this spectrum of colours, are found in the so-called third landscape – in degraded and abandoned spaces where wild, obstinate, biodiverse and extremely resilient ecosystems thrive in the absence of humans. While humanity avoids systemic responsibility, the environment is increasingly outpacing us with its capacity to adapt. /N. Erjavec/

NIKA ERJAVEC (1994) graduated at the Department of Unique Design and obtained her Master’s degree from the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. For her series of installations and hybrid artistic research (in)VISIBLE she received the Prešeren Award of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, in 2019. Over the past ten years, she has exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions in gallery, urban and rural spaces in Slovenia and abroad. She works occasionally as a set designer, prop designer and photographer in theatre. Since 2022, she has been part of the curatorial and mentoring team of the Lighting Guerrilla Festival.

co-production: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML)