Nika Oblak & Primož Novak
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝟭𝟮
EXHIBITION
6–29 October 2021
The work by the duo Nika Oblak & Primož Novak entitled 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹) focuses on the influence of contemporary means of communication on one’s life. Their artistic practice over the past twenty years has continuously addressed the position of humans in the clenches of consumerist doctrines, media cacophony and popular culture. Along the same lines, in their latest work they have created a spatial video installation consisting of screens, cables and other heralds of everyday modern life. 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 (𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹) shows the motif of running, symbolised by an ordinary man involved in the multilayered mechanisms of today’s neoliberal reality. The image of the protagonist running in an infinite and senseless loop from screen to screen can thus be seen as a manifestation of the myth of Sisyphus who, by means of divine punishment, was condemned to repeatedly roll a boulder up the same hillside.
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Nika Oblak & Primož Novak
𝗜𝗻 𝘇𝗱𝗮𝗷 𝗻𝗲𝗸𝗮𝗷 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗮𝗰̌𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮 𝟭𝟮
RAZSTAVA
6.–29. oktober 2021
Delo tandema Nika Oblak & Primož Novak z naslovom 𝗡𝗲𝘀𝗸𝗼𝗻𝗰̌𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁 (𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗻𝗮) se posveča vplivu sodobnih komunikacijskih sredstev na življenje posameznika. Na sledi svoje umetniške prakse, s katero sta v preteklih dvajsetih letih kontinuirano naslavljala položaj človeka v primežu potrošniških doktrin, medijske kakofonije in popularne kulture, sta ustvarila prostorsko video instalacijo, sestavljeno iz ekranov, kablov in ostalih glasnikov sodobnega vsakdana. Delo prikazuje motiv teka, ki (lahko) simbolizira slehernika, vpetega v večplastne mehanizme današnje neoliberalne stvarnosti. Podobo protagonistke, ki v neskončnem in nesmiselnem krogu teče iz ekrana v ekran, je moč prepoznati kot manifestacijo mitološke zgodbe o Sizifu, ki mu je božja kazen naložila, da je moral vedno znova in znova kotaliti isto skalo v isto pobočje.
