While Urša Vidic’s previous project, Crystal Sea (Kazemate, 2014), did not feature the medium of painting, which is otherwise the primary expression in her artistic practice, in the current exhibition she has once again returned to drawing. Drawing as the most basic, simple, and direct form for translating artistic considerations into a visual image is used by her in such a manner that it is much more at home in the field of geography: in the form of a topographic map, an altitudinal cross-section, and an outline of the landscape is a source of information on a particular part of the Earth's surface and as such it proves to be inherently objective. The plans are verified by the mountainous landscape carved out of ice that is placed in a special glass box. Created with mathematical precision on the basis of models, it makes the viewer feel the image of the actual landscape as if without the intervention of the artist. Thus, we see a sculpture whose form easily overlaps with our image of a landscape caught in ice. Furthermore, the audio background that takes on the role of a constitutive element of the story also leads us to believe that we have found ourselves in some wonderful, faraway world that otherwise only adventurers and explorers wander into. In a place far from mechanized calculations and the human concept of time burdened with tick-tocking. Where even the hands on a clock freeze, where time comes to a standstill. 

With its audio-visual image, the project Uncharted testifies to the artist's unique expressive poetics. It offers more than just a space for meditation, which it creates by arousing the viewer's unconscious knowledge and memories. By playing with extremely subjective material – the drawings and the sculpture present a mental landscape, the landscape of the artist's mind, and thus a completely utopian construct – it actually creates a metaphor. The empty landscape that will never be put on any earthly map hints at the lonely contemporary person, while the impression of eternity and the never-changing nature of things is mere deception. The existence of the miniature model is possible only under precisely determined conditions. If such were not fulfilled, the model would melt and disappear. By means of a premeditated duplication of “virtual” reality in Uncharted Urša Vidic forms her individual memento mori of the 21st Century, which calls our attention to the fact that nothing is forever.