AVTOPORTRET / 2006
National Art Gallery Maribor, Slovenia

CONCEPT
The circle is a symbol of the cyclic and the repetitive. The inner circle represents the subconscious and the wishes. The outer circle represents the reality.

BARBIE
Since many decades, Barbie is a common and universal toy for girls. For me, it is a typical shown-like-innocent tool with the latent aim to educate a potential future consumer of products connected with the beauty standards. The today girl playing with Barbie will be the tomorrow ideal buyer of the cosmetic and fashion industry. So, the Barbie in the inner circle displays the subconscious wish of every woman. This subconscious effects and worsens the women dissatisfaction with the reality and put her complexes in an increasing process.

REAL WOMEN BODIES
In the outer circle are placed the real bodies of the women. They stand on tiptoe, in the usual posture of the Barbie.

CHILDREN'S HEADS
The heads of the child on the women bodies symbolized the enigma.

The little girls are not aware of the problems connected with the beauty, because the experiences - at that stage of life – are not in conflict with their external appearance. But when they get to the puberty, there is a switch and their bodies undergo an obvious change. I show my own experience: during the adolescence, the changes of my body were expected as the typical images that the media reinforce, but the opposite happen. This is to say that from the moment in which I am aware of my deviation from the normative image of the beauty, I become mature and prepared for my self control. Anyway, at the same time, I become a part of a consumer chain.

SET UP
The purpose of the circle is to rotate in the space. It is controlled by the observer, but the final landing of the object is unpredictable. With turning this circle the active visitors put the shapes - women bodies and Barbie - into life. This allows a contact between the inner and the outer shapes.

The fast movement leads to the possible connection between the ideal shape of Barbie and one of the different shapes of the women. This to say that all the women are carrying a fragment of a Barbie inside, but the future is unpredictable. The rotating circle it is like a circle-of-luck. Turn it and wait till it stops. When it stops, the woman that you will be is reveal: one body, one shape. But it is a real one, not an ideal one.

TERROR / 2006 Slovinian National Theatre Maribor

After a successful cooperation with the dance Theatre Plesna Izba Maribor, I was again invited to prepare a concept that was planned to be tuned with the dance performance TERROR of the choreographer Marko Urbanek. I created the performance introduction that took place when the audience was escorted in the dance hall. The show was about the state of consciousness and the influence of a traumatic experience from the past. The dancers are represented in portraits and each one expresses seven abnormal personalities or the seven sins.

GIBALKA
(eng.: The Mover) / 2005

This is my degree work for the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Education, entitled “Photography on canvas and other materials”. I tested and analyzed an old, pioneer technique of developing photography combined with painting. The repeating element in the works is the woman body: as symbol of maternity, since she could carry in herself the fetus, or as a mother in search of her own identity. I built different compositions with the woman body and I put them in an illusory space. These works illustrate the time of birth and the growth, the life conditions and the whishes.

BESEDE (eng.: Words) 2005

This project was realized in 2005 in collaboration with the dancing theatre Plesna Izba Maribor and presented in Maribor National Theatre as a premiere performance of the dance show “Besede” (“Words”).

Quietly, but at the same time getting the attention of the public, the dancers moved the performance from the stage to the exhibition space, till they stood like in a composition, as silent objects.

This real composition connected the public to the view of the photography exhibited on the wall.

During the photographic session I ask to the dancers to perform with white balls in the mouth (representing the physical impossibility to speak). I shot different compositions of the performing bodies which express the unspoken communication.

RED ROOM DARK ROOM / 2004

I’d like to expose this photographic exhibition, which was presented in Media Nox Gallery, Maribor (22.12.2005).

The gallery basement was transformed into a darkroom and the visitors had the experience of a photographer developing his index print, all fulfilled of nude photos.

The visitors didn’t have a direct confrontation with the exhibition in illuminate surroundings, but they had an active role, since they had to turn on a mini red light and with this light up the fragments of the index prints. This gave to them the vibrant feeling of spying the intimacy exposed in the hundreds fragments exhibited. It was an experience close to spy on through a peephole.

MALIK / 2003

Milk is the first drink that we taste. The mother connection with her child goes, first of all, through the breastfeeding.

They say that we have the strongest connection with the spiritual world as babies and we are loosing this connection through the process of growing.

A man is taking a bath in the milk: it is a sort of ablution into the idol [malik] of his first stage of life, done to return to the pure state of a new-born human being.

AKT / 2001

The first time I introduced myself as a young artist to the public was in 2001, when I had my first exhibition. “Akt” is a black and white series of men and women nude portraits, in analog technique. With this series I discovered the possibility that the media “photography” and the concrete fact of carrying a photo-camera can give me to explore the intimacy of the people. A performance and a poems reading happened contemporaneously with the opening of the exhibition.