Vesna Bukovec:
The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life

1st October - 31st October 2009
Gallery Miklova hiša, Ribnica

We are informing you about solo exhbition by Vesna Bukovec , (SCCA-Ljubljana's webmaster).

Vesna Bukovec
The Only Thing I Can Control Is My Attitude Towards Life
Curated by: Urška Jurman

At this exhibition Vesna Bukovec presents a new video It Will Be OK and a series of drawings. Both works deal with the self-help culture and the dictate of positive thought as two cultural formations that importantly form and express the contemporary subjectivity.

Vesna Bukovec takes a closer look at psychology, which is worked and distributed through the various forms of popular culture. The authoress directs her criticism towards the over simplification of the complexity of our emotions and life circumstances, which - in the context of exaggerated positive orientation (It Will Be OK) and the various psychological tests that she addresses in her drawings - seem as a merely insignificant comment. At this she uses irony, repetition and eclecticism as her artistic strategy, with which she holds a mirror against the absurdity of the narcissistic care of oneself.

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 together with Lada Cerar and Metka Zupanič. In recent years she has presented her works at numerous group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Slovenj Gradec, Zagreb, Belgrade, Utrecht, Athens, Berlin, den Haag, Beijing, Linz, Graz, Vienna etc. She has also staged solo exhibitions in Ljubljana - in the Centre and gallery P74 (2003 and 2005), Gallery Nova in Zagreb and in Likovni Salon in Celje (both in 2004), Gallery Simulaker in Novo mesto and Gallery Meduza in Koper (both in 2006), Gallery Škuc in Ljubljana (2007) and Art Gallery UGM in Maribor (2008).

This is the fifth exhibition in a series in which selected curators (so far Zdenka Badovinac - Uršula Berlot, Andrej Medved - Mitja Ficko, Simona Vidmar - Sašo Sedlaček, Nevenka Šivavec - Matej Košir and on this occasion Iztok Hotko - Vesna Bukovec) select one artist for a solo exhibition from the artists who participated at the annual post graduate students exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, 2. M (this time the selection was made from the 2004 exhibition).

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