{"id":3041,"date":"2023-10-25T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2024-04-15T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T11:45:15","slug":"for-your-pleasure-feminist-positions-in-visual-art-in-and-from-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/3041","title":{"rendered":"For Your Pleasure. Feminist Positions in Visual Art in and from Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibition:<\/strong> For Your Pleasure. Feminist Positions in Visual Art in and from Slovenia
\nVenue:<\/strong> Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, SI
\nDate:<\/strong> 27 October 2023 \u2014 21 April 2024<\/p>\n

Artists: Lina Akif, Zemira Alajbegovi\u0107, Milijana Babi\u0107, Mirjana Batini\u0107, Urban Belina, Sa\u0161a Bezjak, Vanja Bu\u0107an Vesna Bukovec, Jasmina Cibic, Lea Culetto, Ana \u010cigon, Eclipse, Elena Fajt, Andreja Gomi\u0161\u010dek, Olja Grubi\u0106, Marina Gr\u017eini\u0107, Dejan Habicht, \u0110ejmi Hadrovi\u0107, Ida Hir\u0161enfelder, Hi\u0161a na hribu, Maja Hodo\u0161\u010dek, Tja\u0161a Kancler, Jasna Klan\u010di\u0161ar, Andrea Knezovi\u0107, Tatiana Kocmur, Neven Korda, Mankica Kranjec, Anka Kra\u0161na, Rok Kravanja, Meta Krese, Tanja La\u017eeti\u0107, Agate Lielp\u0113tere, Aprilija Lu\u017ear, Du\u0161an Mandi\u010d, Lela B. Njatin, Daniel Petkovi\u0107, Jovita Pristov\u0161ek, Tadej Poga\u010dar & P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. muzej sodobne umetnosti, Ur\u0161ka Preis, Marija Mojca Punger\u010dar, Maru\u0161a Sagadin, Duba Sambolec, Simona Semeni\u010d, Mojca Senega\u010dnik, Zvonka T Sim\u010di\u010d, Nata\u0161a Sku\u0161ek, Maja Smrekar, Alenka Spacal, Sa\u0161a Spa\u010dal, Zora Stan\u010di\u010d, Aina \u0160mid, Ajda Tomazin, Jasmina Zalo\u017enik, Lana Zdravkovi\u0107 (KITCH), Nada \u017dgank<\/strong><\/p>\n

Curator: Martina Vovk<\/strong>
\nAssistant Curator: Kristjan Sedej<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The exhibition presents artistic production focusing on gender and gender-related discrimination, on sexism and the inequality of women (and all who identify as women), with discrimination manifesting at the intersections of gender and other categories and circumstances, such as class, labor, race, nationality, sexual identity, and age.<\/p>\n

The areas and topics of interest of the artists presented at the exhibition coincide with those of feminist theory, social movements, and political action. They emerge as universal feminist themes outlining numerous specific positions, personal iconographies, figurations, memories, investigations, performative actions, and individual artistic statements in the perspective of gender-based discrimination and through the prism of the intersection with other areas of discrimination, above all labor, class, race, nationality, and LGBTIQ+ identities.<\/p>\n

Excerpts from curatorial text<\/em><\/p>\n

More about the exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n

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I am participating with two works, digital drawing Cyclists are Coming<\/a> (2020) and series of seven drawings Local Racisms<\/a> (2022).<\/p>\n

Description of my works at the exhibition, written by Kristjan Sedej<\/p>\n

Vesna Bukovec
\n<\/strong>Local Racisms<\/em>, 2022
\nseries of 7 drawings; ink on paper<\/p>\n

Vesna Bukovec
\n<\/strong>Cyclists Are Coming<\/em>, 2020
\ndigital drawing<\/p>\n

Made with the line and text only, Vesna Bukovec\u2019s drawings are topical responses to political and social changes in the Slovenian context. In this visual form, the artist explores the positions and stories of marginalized and oppressed social groups adversely impacted by daily politics. Drawing from a variety of sources, most prominently statistical data and the news, Bukovec reveals the real image of our social reality and its protagonists. The motifs in her drawings thus constantly keep changing: Some are representations of the \u201cerased\u201d citizens, others of the Roma, and so on.<\/p>\n

Represented in the Local Racisms <\/em>series are a variety of subjects whose identities and positions the artist has recognized to be socially marginalized and treated unequally. As Bukovec points out: \u201cRacism is discrimination based on the color of the skin or race, but it also underpins the logic of excluding entire groups that deviate from the norm.\u201d Directly addressing the viewers, the represented figures invite them to reflect on social norms and their problematic aspects, because otherwise such practices of exclusion can lead to nationalism and racism becoming the norm. The drawings were made on the initiative of the City of Women for the poster campaign promoting the 28th<\/sup> International Festival of Contemporary Arts \u2013 City of Women.<\/p>\n

Unlike the series described above that aims to inspire viewers to action, Cyclists Are Coming <\/em>depicts a moment of active rebellion against the political situation of the time. The drawing portrays the mass group of cyclists at the 2020 antigovernment protests during the pandemic, denouncing the mass violations of civil and human rights and the spreading of the politics of hate. Like Local Racisms<\/em>, this work sustains an active dialogue with the present and a critical stand vis-\u00e0-vis current events, and both works are a call for solidarity in society. The bicycle, a symbol of women\u2019s mobility and resistance against the restraining corset, and feminism, a mass movement against all forms of patriarchal exploitation, are here presented as unfailingly relevant forms of resistance.<\/p>\n

Vesna Bukovec<\/strong> (1977, Ljubljana) is a visual artist, curator, and graphic designer. After obtaining her BA and MFA in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, she started working in a variety of media, especially drawing and video, as well as photography and installation. Stemming from her socially critical stand, her research, appropriation of images, and participatory practices reveal the extent of inequality in society. She is a member of the KOLEKTIVA art group. She works as a curator in collaboration with the SCCA-Ljubljana.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Dejan Habicht\/Modern Gallery, Ljubljana<\/p>\n\n\t\t