We would like to inform you, that on Thursday, 24th June, the exhibition Eva Petrič: Post-Corona Sun, Penduluming, will exceptionally be open from 11.00 am to 4.30 pm.

Throughout June the former church of the Teutonic Knights in Ljubljana, part of the Križanke complex, will be the venue for a transmedia installation by Eva Petrič entitled Post-Corona Sun, Penduluming. The ambient installation, consisting of an assemblage of found and recycled lace, plexiglass sculpture, sound and light, reflects the artist’s perception of the world and humanity at a crossroads as it transitions into the post-coronavirus age. The Post-Corona Sun, which consists of 350 pieces of handmade lace, either donated or found at flea markets around the world and now recycled, and the figure of the Earthman on a Pendulum that hangs in front of it, wrapped in twists and loops of Idrija lace, illustrate the intertwined and interdependent nature of everything and everyone on this planet. The monochrome coils of Idrija lace that form the plexiglass sculpture of the Earthman illustrate the interweaving of emotions in every individual and the connection of individuals to wider society, to the whole, where each individual part is dependent on the whole and the whole is dependent on its individual parts.

“We are more connected and interdependent than we realise,” believes the artist. “When one thread breaks, all the others vibrate.”

“The figure of the Earthman, which hangs like a pendulum in front of the Post-Corona Sun in the crossing of the church, indicates our current position in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, when we have to choose a way forward. It is set into oscillating motion, like a request to indicate the right direction, by the sound Touch, which emphasises the importance of touch for the preservation of our humanity. The value of touch, which unlike images and sounds cannot be digitalised and transmitted virtually, is something we are probably only really becoming aware of now that we are all too frequently deprived of it.”

Eva Petrič, a transmedia artist based in Vienna, New York and Ljubljana, first came to attention through her creative use of photography to research the language of shadows and our existence at the ephemeral level (one example is her permanent installation Rubik’s Cube of Recycled Shadows&E@Motion on the Museum Plaza in Ljubljana). Her motivation to create spaces at multiple levels defined by atmosphere has led her to adopt a transmedia approach in her art. The result is more than 30 large site-specific installations based on assemblages of found and recycled lace combined with video, sound, performance and movement, which have been exhibited in a range of mainly public spaces around the world. Her transmedia project Eden, Transplanted won the award for Best Performance Art at the United Solo festival in New York in 2017 and last year was included in THE BEST OF category, created to recognise the greatest artistic achievements of United Solo’s first decade. In 2016 she became the first artist from Slovenia to have an installation (actually two) in the Stephansdom, Vienna’s famous Gothic cathedral, which is also where her latest work, Collective Corona Rose, currently hangs.