Ljubljana
MGML

Living object

The exhibition of visual, audio and interactive installations was produced by established female artists Špela Petrič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, Polona Tratnik, who have been active at the cross-section of art, science and technology for decades, within the broad and often controversial concept of “BioArt”.

Many of the exhibited projects were performed in laboratories through interdisciplinary collaborations with experts in natural sciences and the humanities, and all are the result of long-term processes and research. The projects provided an insight into the relationship between humans, animals and plants in light of heterogeneity, hybridity, sympoiesis, intercognition and parallel evolutions, within which notions of subject and object become fluid because a human being, too, is reduced to a material to be processed, for example, a cell/body/object.  

Published by: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana / City Art Gallery Ljubljana
Represented by: Blaž Peršin
For City Art Gallery Ljubljana: Alenka Gregorič
Editor: Alenka Trebušak
Texts: Laura Benítez Valero, Ingeborg Reicle, Alenka Trebušak
English translation: Urban Belina, Manca Gašperšič
Slovenian translation: Manca Gašperšič, Maja Lovrenov
English language editing: Ana Čavić, Gloria Custance
Slovenian language editing: Mirjam Furlan Lapanja
Photographs: Andrej Peunik (exhibition view), Miha Turšič (59-61, 63-65), Miha Fras (67-68), Miha Godec (71-74), Hana Jasić (79,81), Karolina Prica, Kapelica Gallery Photo Archive (93-94, 96), Kapelica Gallery Photo Archive (99), Saša Spačal, Artist Photo Archive (100-101), Robertina Šebjanič, Artist Photo Archive (108,121), Matadero Photo Archive (109,113), Robertina Šebjanič & Gjino Šutić, Artists' Photo Archive (114-115), Maria Eugenia Serrano Díez,  CA2M Madrid Photo Archive (122), Polona Tratnik, Artist Photo Archive (125-127, 129-130, 133-135, 137-138, 140-141)
Reproductions on pages 76-77 (Miha Turšič), 90 (Maja Smrekar, Aljaž Vesel & Anja Debello), 106 (Tina Ivezić, Kamizdat Photo Archive)
Design and layout: Ajdin Bašić
Printed by: Formatisk d.o.o., Ljubljana
Print run: 300

December 2020
Price: 15 €
Number of pages: 146
ISBN 978-961-6969-43-7


Living object
© Andrej Peunik / MGML

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