SŠOF Ljubljana: Shadow of Ideal Reality
lighting installation
Gosposka street, next to the SŠOF building
24th May–19th June 2021

Mentor: Damijan Kracina 

The SŠOF student’s project consists of a larger spatial structure, a network of rods that illustrates contacts between individuals. The light effects make the rods disappear and reappear and thus depict the instability of interpersonal contacts, which was especially evident during the current epidemics. The work represents a unique visual metamorphosis of distress that the most vulnerable groups of people find themselves in, including youngsters. As the creators wrote: »The reality that we live from day to day is just a shadow of the hopes we had for the future. In solitude that sometimes seems despairful, we are shutting ourselves in and the last contacts that keep us breathing above the surface seem to be breaking apart.«

Contributing artists: Anea Abdić, Tinkara Bajrič, Altina Beganović, Irena Čepon, Amalija Černe, Zara Čotar, Jure Hüll, Aleksandra Tisa Jelinčič Plemeniti, Eva Lazar, Zoja Makovec, Maruša Milharčič, Lara Muck, Zala Polovšak, Corinna Šturm, Nela Zajec Genorio and Ana Žele.

DAILY: 21.30–23.30

Coproduction: High School for Design and Photography (SŠOF)