Ulla Žibert: Green Corner

ULLA ŽIBERT: Green Corner
light installation
Gregorčičeva Street 1 // until 14 June
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.


The space between two touching walls or the meeting of three touching surfaces is one of the inevitable elements of architecture. The corner is also a place of passage – it is an area where something stops, stays or accumulates and grows, but is is also an area that is often bypassed and overlooked by light, whilst the eye often stops there. The installation consists of a dynamic interplay of geometric shapes and organic structures, as well as shadowy images that appear within the installation, revealing a moment of stopping in the process of passing, decay and degradation. The contrast that emerges between the organic and the artificial creates an intermediate space between something that has been stopped in the process of decay and the viewer who exists in the time of transience. The project visualises the cyclical interconnectedness and change of all living beings and highlights the moment of absurdity, since the subject’s perception of nature as a manageable property allows for an impression of control – and, consequently, gives the subject a sense of apparent dominance over physiological processes and changes in their own bodies. /U. Žibert/

ULLA ŽIBERT (1988, Trbovlje) graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana (ALOU), in 2015. In her work, she focuses on the re-interpretation of seemingly ordinary everyday occurrences, whereby by means of combining different media, she builds and develops contents that challenge the self-evident everyday defaults, thus bringing both social and ecological issues into her work. She often includes text and word play in her works, thus manipulating the language to create situations that explore the relationship between language, image and meaning. She presents her work in group and solo exhibitions at home and abroad. She lives and works between Trbovlje and Ljubljana.


Special thanks to: Glej Theatre, residents of Gregorčičeva Street 1