Cinéma Féministe
Love / L'Amour / LJUBEZEN
Video screenings

Thursday, 5 May, 2011 at 8 pm
Thursday, 19 May, 2011 at 8 pm
Udarnik Cinema, Grajski trg 1, 2000 Maribor

SCCA-Ljubljana web-master, Vesna Bukovec is participating artist at the video screenings in Udarnik Cinema. From the data base of the video programming online platform ArtFem.TV, a monthly selection of works is screened at the cinema Udarnik in Maribor, Slovenia. The selection of works is chosen each month on an issue of contexts in the feminist field by Evelin Stermitz

Love / L’Amour / LJUBEZEN
The selected video works circle around “Love”, one age-old central theme of various film genres, but while subverting this and viewing aspects of “Love” in a different perspective. It comes to a feminist critique of “Love” as a binary societal phenomena when facing its suppressive and destructive aspects, expressed in articulating the “side effects” of “Love” within male power structures and dependency. Beneath the emphasis on critical video works, other depict “Love” as universal but individual experience, and some show desperate aspects of “Love” with humour and irony.

Vesna Bukovec, It Will Be OK, 2009, video still

More info:

• zavodudarnik.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/love-lamour-ljubezen
• www.vesna-bukovec.net/eng/archives/1166

Curator: Evelin Stermitz
Artists: Signe Baumane, Vesna Bukovec, Lynn Estomin, Nikola Jeremic & Iskra Bela, Lemeh42, Kika Nicolela, Elena Skoko, Cat Tyc
Organizer: Zavod Udarnik
Partner in coproducer: ArtFem.TV in collaboration with son:DA

Vesna Bukovec (1977) graduated and completed her post-graduate studies in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She works as a solo artist as well as in the art group KOLEKTIVA (with Metka Zupanič and Lada Cerar). In recent years she has presented her works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Maribor, Slovenj Gradec, Novo Mesto, Ribnica, Zagreb, Belgrade, Athens, Berlin, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna, New York, Verona... Her artistic work finds its expression in a variety of media (video, photography, drawing, installation) and approaches (research, appropriation, participation, etc.), with irony being a frequently used artistic strategy.

[Published May 4, 2011]