FemLink-Art: Aggression and Wonder

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 | Exhibitions

Exhibition: FemLink-Art: Aggression and Wonder
Venue: Alkatraz Gallery, ACC Metelkova city, Ljubljana
Date: 27 May – 19 June 2020
Accompanying program: A closing event, where we will discuss the FemLink-Art initiative with Slovenian authors at the exhibition, Vesna Bukovec and Ana Grobler, in an informal atmosphere. The event will take place in front of the Alcatraz Gallery on Thursday, 18 June 2020, from 5.30 pm. We will also present the FemLink-Art publication, which was published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the collective.

Artists: Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia), Vouvoula Skoura (Greece), Luzia Simons (Brazil), Viviana Berco (Argentina), Hiroko Okada (Japan), Sara Malinarich (Chile), Evelin Stermitz (Austria), Ingrida Pičukane (Latvia), Sabine Mooibroek (the Netherlands), Véronique Sapin (France), Maria Rosa Jijon (Ecuador), Tayeba Begum Lipi (Bangladesh), Amaranta Sanchez (Mexico), Eva Koch (Denmark), C. M. Judge (the USA), Alessandra Arno (Italy), Tanja Koistila (Finland), Maria Dominguez Alba (Spain), Ana Grobler (Slovenia), Elaine Frigon (Canada), Alena Kupčikova (Czech Republic), Seema Nusrat (Pakistan), Mesrure Melis Bilgin (Turkey), Anna Titovets (Russia), Ligia Bouton (Brazil), Dagmar Kase (Estonia), Laura García (Mexico), Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo (Cuba), Zuzanna Janin (Poland), Vesna Bukovec (Slovenia), Ayesha Sultana (Bangladesh), Maria Papacharalambous (Cyprus), Loes Heebink (the Netherlands), Amina Zoubir (Algeria), Cagdas Kahriman (Turkey), Patricija Gilyte (Latvia), Carolina Saquel (Chile/France), Angelika Rinnhofer (Germany), Itziar Barrio (Spain), Liang Wei (China), Diana Yun (Kazakhstan), Cecilia Vignolo (Uruguay), Jelena Mišković (Serbia), Chantal du Pont (Canada)

Curator: Veronique Sapin (Francija/Singapur)

Anna Titovets, Self cell aggression

About the exhibition

FemLink-Art is a collective of visual artists, established by C. M. Judge (USA) and Veronique Sapin (France/Canada) in 2005. FemLink explores new forms of artistic networking and transnational collaboration; furthermore, its aim is to help artists with harder working conditions and less exhibiting opportunities. Until now, 145 artists from 63 countries, with over 300 works contributed to the creation of a collective piece of art, composed of video collages, thematising various concepts. The founders of FemLink-Art contend that ‘for a long time, the aesthetic criteria were characterized by forced limitations and dominated by principles of exclusion, legitimacy, and hierarchy;’ the project was founded as a political answer to challenge overlooked female artists and inequalities in the world of art, and to foster networking. It works in the way that the founders invite artists to contribute their own perspectives on a specific collage topic without any limitations, except for the temporal one – the video cannot be longer than two minutes.

The Alkatraz Gallery shall confront two topics of video collages – Aggression and Wonder – created by 44 artists, who were chosen by one of the collective’s founders, the curator Veronique Sapin. Although the themes appear to be diametrically opposite, they – with the help of videos, harrowing and diverse in artistic approaches – question the reality, offer critical thought on the present, and reveal what is ordinarily overlooked. Both videos have already been featured in the Photon Gallery in the context of Video evenings, organized by Kolektiva. Among the authors of the collage Wonder is also a Slovene artist Vesna Bukovec, with her video entitled You Can Do It!, whilst the collage Aggression features a Slovene artist and curator, Ana Grobler, with the video titled Fable.

From the exhibition announcement on Alkatraz Gallery website.

More about the exhibition
femlink.org

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I am participating with the video You can do it! (2010).