Boris Beja's Exhibition on the Intrusion of Nature into the Deserted Kumrovec Political School
“The artist’s questioning of the role of time in this process is not directed to what time destroyed, but more towards a sense of what it brought. It triggered life, the intrusion of nature into the building’s interior”, and that is exactly the state that the artist wants to capture with the photographic part of the installation. In it, he tackles photo documenting the space, a herbarium with plants from the building, and potted plants.
With the absence of people, the greenery had spread. It is now visible and tangible. Alongside these two senses, the exhibition also includes an auditory component as we can hear the rhythmic hum of the projector. The presence of the latter is not to display images, but rather to lit and frame the drawing on the wall, which depicts a former playground at the complex. It has been said that “Tito has been transferred into a multi-sensory form through the presence of old technology, as he was a great aficionado of film and, through the idea of the collective, represented by the drawing.”
The full article (in Slovenian) is accessible on the RTV Slovenia website.