Vesna Bukovec

Vesna Bukovec: Exploanation

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec: Eksploanacija / Exploanation (solo exhibition)
Venue: Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
Date: April 22 – May 13, 2016
Opening: April 22, 2016, at 8 pm

Curators: Ana Grobler, Sebastian Krawczyk, Jadranka Plut

Vesna Bukovec, Domoljubi / The Patriots, drawing, 2016; Caption on the drawing translates to: We are proud to hate!!!

“The artist received the impulse for the exhibition while observing responses to the migration crisis which has, in the media and the Internet space triggered a surge of negative emotions, often pointed toward the victims of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of the recent years. A spectrum of negative reactions, articulated by the aid of hate speech has settled as a regular companion of press reports, chats in cafés and on social networks. There is an interesting fact about it – the mentioned discourse has emerged in the circles of the self-proclaimed patriots. While following the paradox (as love for the homeland was one of the crucial qualities to catalyze the uprising against the occupancy during the Second World War, as stressed by the author) the artist started to ask herself how it is possible that love for the nation can – in such a short time – turn into acts that bear witness of hatred toward others exactly in the name of patriotism? Is a demonized image of a stranger a necessary condition to establish a national community?”

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“Vesna Bukovec has chosen resistance. Even the title of the exhibition, Exploanation, composed of the words exploitation and nation, provokes the thought that through the aid of the nation, intolerance and hatred towards Others are fomented.”

Excerpts from the exhibition text

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Exhibition opening
Photo: Sunčan Stone

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Exhibition view
Photo: Sunčan Stone

V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity. Nika Autor, Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec

Exhibition: V iskanju človečnosti / The Search for Humanity. Nika Autor, Widad Tamimi & Vesna Bukovec
Venue: II. gimnazija Maribor/DrugaGalerija, Maribor, SI
Date: April 12 – May 12, 2016
Opening event: April 12, 2016, at 6 pm

Curator: Petra Čeh, SI

Exhibition of photographs by Nika Autor and stories by Widad Tamimi with drawings of Vesna Bukovec.

Opening event by students of II. gimnazija Maribor: Neža Kokol, Vita Krump, Gašpar Marinič and Nik Osmančević, with the screening of video Obzornik 62 by Obzorniška fronta.

Talk with artists, curator and musician and columnist N’toko will address the topics of work in refugee camps, art and current social problems.

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Photo from the opening: Zala Šeško, Matevž Rudl

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Exhibition view:

Attaque(e)r le visible #7: Zina Saro Wiwa, Vesna Bukovec, Amirah Tajdin

Screening: Attaque(e)r le visible #7: Zina Saro Wiwa, Vesna Bukovec, Amirah Tajdin
Venue: La Mutinerie, Paris, FR
Date: April 12, 2016, at 7.30 pm

Curator: Lawinia P. Rate, FR

About the screening

There is a point of contact: feminity
Feminity: simultaneously drowning in phantasies, artificial creations, wishes, norms of the reality

There is no road to absolute knowledge.
Rather a kind of wandering, tasting, an audio-visual exploration without definite end.

Are you sure what you are going to be in a second?
“How puzzling all these changes are!” – said Alice

Program:

Zina Saro Wiiwa
– Deliverance of Comfort, Nigeria, 2010, 7 min.
– Phyllis, Nigeria, 2010, 16 min.

Vesna Bukovec
– I Can Create Positive Change, Slovenia, 2010, 2 min.
– Everything I Eat Turns to Health, Beauty and Love, Slovenia, 2010, 4 min.
– I Trust in the Process of Life, Slovenia, 2010, 3 min.
– I Love Myself For Who I Am, Slovenia, 2010, 3 min.

Amirah Tajdin
– Fluorescent Sin, Kenia, 2011, 8 min.
– Minerva’s Lilies, UAE, 2016, 4 min.

Attaque[e]r le visible is a monthly film event at La Mutinerie in Paris that focuses on feminist/queer experimental films.

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Photo credit :
Zina Saro Wiwa, Phyllis, Nigeria, 2010 (left, top)
Vesna Bukovec, Everything I Eat Turns to Health, Beauty and Love, Slovenia, 2010 (left, bottom)
Amirah Tajdin, Minevra’s Lilies, UAE, 2016 (right)