POINT. NO RETURN. | SANJA NEŠKOVIĆ PERŠIN |
Exhibition and Performance |
Monfort Gallery Portorož, Saturday, June 3, 2023, at 5 p. m.
As part of the opening program of the exhibition (Everything Is) Not What It Seems, which will take place on Saturday, June 3, 2023, we have prepared a series of events in Piran and Portorož. Among these, we highlight the exhibition and performance of Sanja Nešković Peršin, which will take place at 5 p.m. in the Monfort Gallery.
The project combines the artist’s areas of interest, either through her professional aspirations or through the reflection of her intimate space and time. It represents the relationship between her public and private life, her past and present, and is drawn through an image that creates ambiguity, opens up space and transcends a linear reading of stories that always seem to impair our own reflection. It is a choreography of objects that symbolize the presence of light and the play of colours that takes place in relation to space. By definition, colour is a feeling, its perception is influenced by long-term and short-term phenomena, which that describes as a property of light sources perceived by the eye. It is a temporal experience between body and space, where there is no longer a wall that places boundaries between the work of art, space, and the viewer.
SANJA NEŠKOVIĆ PERŠIN is an artist, choreographer, and performer. After finishing the Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana she continued her ballet training at the Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower in France. As the recipient of international scholarships she perfected her skills at various dance and ballet workshops in Vienna and New York. She was employed as a renowned ballerina at the SNG Opera in balet Ljubljana, where she worked as a choreographer and between 2014 and 2019 as the artistic director of the ballet. She has participated in numerous theatre and dance performances of contemporary Slovenian and foreign production. Her authorial projects have featured as guest performances at festivals in Slovenia and abroad. In 2019, she was presented with the Župančič Award of the Ljubljana City Municipality for exceptional creations in the field of art and culture. Through a reflection on intimate space and time her latest projects research and intertwine elements of performative and visual art.
Point. No Return.
… is a stage in various areas of one’s life; it marks a kind of chronological and situational point from which there is no going back to the previous state, or no way for the resulting effects to be avoided or prevented.
… is the artist’s newest independent project which, possibly in the most radical way until now, traverses through the artist’s areas of interest, either through her professional aspirations, or through a reflection of her intimate space and time.
… is the relationship between her public and private lives, her past and present, and is drawn through an image that creates ambiguity and, as she would say it, an image that expands space and transcends the linear reading of the stories which once and for all diminish our own abilities to reflect.
… is a still life that is not just a multiplied, readymade object, but a composition which reaches directly into a space. The relationship between objects and space calls into question the authenticity of their primary role, and does the same for the authenticity of the viewer’s experience, which is inevitably linked to his or her rational, emotional, and aesthetic experience.
… is a choreography of objects that symbolise the presence of light and a play of colours, all of which unfold in their relation to space. By definition, colour is a sensation, and its perception is influenced by long- and short-term phenomena which human beings describe as a property of the light sources which the eye can perceive.
… is reddish-pink, yellow, and blue.
… is an undefined space that appears and is erased, all while moving away, and coming closer.
… is the state of other elements, whose intrinsic quality lies in their ability to respond to changing relationships in space.
… is a memory of an old oil-on-canvas, whose motif by chance corresponds to the current situation in space.
… is a movement which has neither a beginning, nor an end.
… is the time-span of an experience between a physical body and space, where there is no longer a wall to delimit a work of art, space, or the viewer.
… is the music of a different time and space, which seems to function as a soundscape, but nevertheless most directly establishes a relation to the artist’s intimate space, and her relationships with people.
… is the only existing point through which a viewer enters the space.
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