Natural Relations

Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana

The exhibition deals with (wo)man's position in nature, according to radical environmentalist discourse that goes against the grain of the social axioms of work and hyper-production. It questions the (non)sense of activity and the relations that determine the social and natural environment.

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The Natural Relations exhibition is thematically linked to the animals-nature-culture discussions at the 14th International Festival of Contemporary Arts, City of Women, taking place in October. Natural Relations questions the (non)sense of activity and the relations that determine the social and natural environment. The exhibition deals with (wo)man's position in nature, according to radical environmentalist discourse that goes against the grain of the social axioms of work and hyper-production. Relations, as the central element of these works, reveal various appropriations of nature and (wo)man's dual role in society. She takes both the position of a demiurgic creator (technological developer) and subsequent (self) enslaver, as well as the executor of apocalypse.

While societal relations are regulated and defined by laws and contracts, nature is still conceived as a given, except in rare cases. Natural Relations does not discuss this important topic, which is rather exploited by the mass media. Instead it develops the idea dependent on bio- and geopolitical contexts of technology, politics, urban planning and architecture that are becoming our new nature. Are the spirals of turbo-production or a final withdrawal to the other side, really the only possible ways? And is there a chance for a paradigm shift in the overactive world of a depersonalised, disembodied subject, who has seemingly separated from nature and placed her and her tools in a predatory, parasitical, dependent position and raw symbiotic relation? Maybe this is a beginning eventually leading to an end.

The exhibition will feature artists of various generations from Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Guatemala, Lebanon, Finland, Norway, Colombia, Estonia and the US: Katinka Bock, Jasmina Cibic, Ines Doujak, Regina Jose Galindo, Kinda Hassan, Lamia Joreige, Tea Mäkipää, Ulrike Mohr, Claire Pentecost, Adriana Salazar, Helene Sommer, Nika Špan and Mare Tralla. The exhibition is a collaborative project and the result of rhizomatic relations between the featured artists, Škuc gallery and the City of Women.

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Stari trg 21 - Ljubljana

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