Vesna Bukovec

Word for Word, without Words

Exhibition: Word for Word, without Words / Dobesedno brez besed
Location: City Art Museum (MGML), Mestni trg 5, Ljubljana
Date: September 15 – October 30, 2010

Artists: Marina Abramović in Ulay, Maria Ångerman, Vesna Bukovec, Attila Csörgő, Zvonko Čoh, Edvin Dobrilovič, Domestic Research Society, Igor Eškinja, Tomaž Furlan, Kostja Gatnik, Albert Heta, Damijan Kracina, Siniša Labrović, Giovanni Morbin, Ivan Moudov, Alban Muja, Miki Muster, Arjan Pregl, Provokart, Marija Mojca Pungerčar, RIGUSRS (The Researcs Institute for Geo-Art Statistics of the Republic of Slovenia), Hinko Smrekar, Ive Tabar, Slaven Tolj, UNIKUM (University of Klagenfurt, Cultural Center)

Artifacts and documents from collections: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana, National Museum of Slovenia, Celje regional Museum, Slovene Ethnographic Museum

Exhibition concept and selection of works: Alenka Gregorič and Domestic Research Society (Damijan Kracina, Alenka Pirman, Jani Pirnat)

Curator: Alenka Gregorič

Expert associates: Erika Kržišnik, Mateja Podlesnik, Janez Polajnar, Petra Zaranšek, Bernarda Županek

About the exhibition:
What happens if we divest language of figurativeness and start taking it literally, word for word? With a number of selected idioms from the Slovenian language as our points of departure we have explored linguistic directness and presented it in an interdisciplinary show. Underpinning the project is our everyday experience of using idiomatic expressions in written and spoken language.

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