FACULTY FOR NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (NTF, UL) – MASTER’S STUDY OF GRAPHIC AND INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS & PIONIRSKI DOM: Kosovel’s Gardens
Light installation
Passage at NLB (Republic Square) // until 22 June
OPENING: Friday, 24 May, 9:30 p.m.

Mentor: Boris Beja

The project, conceived during the study process, thematises Srečko Kosovel’s poetry, whose 120th birthday anniversary is being commemorated this year. The participants created several larger ceramic vases, which, turned upside down, transform into unique light bodies. The starting point of the project is based on the reflection on (sustainable) urban decoration that could replace cut flowers and thus the large carbon footprint that it contains. The lifespan of flowers, which would otherwise wither and end up in biological waste sooner rather than later, lasts much longer in this case, as the flowers are made from sustainable materials, which can also change colour and shape according to the wishes of the individual viewer. The motifs on the ceramic vases are based on constructivist transformations in literature, which Srečko Kosovel left us in his poetry collection entitled Integrals; thus, graphic poetry grows out of the objects, with which the participants created a kind of homage to the poet who passed away too soon.

PARTICIPANTS: /students of NTF/: Jasmin Avdić, Katarina Fišer, Tjaša Gorenc, Milena Rajović, Ana Stevanovski, Nika Trnovec, Manca Žitnik and Ana Žnidaršič; Boris Beja; /participants of the course in the Pionirski dom/: Blaž Porenta, Katarina Mihelič, Mateja Duhovnik, Ajda Lapanje, Milica Zupančič, Uršula Orel, Julija Konstantinović, Klea Starman, Miha Verbič and Helena Jeršan Kojek.

co-production: The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Pioneer Home – Centre for Youth Culture, Artcenter, Center Rog
sponsor: NLB, d. d., Ljubljana