Space in Two Acts, Act One, installation, event, wooden box, packed leftover artworks, asistant, haze, artist's place, Vodnikov trg 5a, Ljubljana, 2020-2021 (photo: Tomaž Šantl)

Act One
Space is inhabited by a choreography of leftover images created by the artist over the past thirty years of her career. But the images are no longer visible; they are sealed, uncompromisingly and hermetically, inside a new art object. This gesture can be understood as the artist settling accounts with her past – the creation, as it were, of a catalogue raisonné, which, however, is stripped of its original function and instead occupies the exhibition space as an object that announces the artist’s current and future interest.

Space in Two Acts, Act Two, installation, event, wooden box, light, sound, haze, white metal bed, two golden blankets, 1-2 spectators, asistant, artist's place, Vodnikov trg 5a, Ljubljana, 2020-2021 (photo: Tomaž Šantl)

Act Two
The artist places the experience of the viewer in the foreground. Space, sound, light, and body are not merely external factors, but essential elements for understanding the artist’s current thinking about the work of art. Here, Space combines these four separates “active ingredients”, which, in turn, lead the viewer into a play of unexpected perspectives and the re-examination of the relationship that develops between body and space.

Text by Tevž Logar

Catalogue (pdf)

Space in Two Acts
Petra Varl in collaboration with:
Tevž Logar, curator
Matic Vrabič, architecture
Pascal Merat in Janez Grošelj, light
Uroš Belantič, Tina Verbič, costume design
Sašo Kalan, sound