Talk and screening
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 7 pm
Project Room SCCA, Metelkova 6, Ljubljana
As part of the Back2Back events, we invite local and international artists to present their work and engage in a dialogue with pieces from the Postaja DIVA archive of their own choosing. This time, our guest is visual artist Nika Tomažič, who works across new media, intermedia, film, and video art. She has designed the program based on her latest short film, I, Deconstructed (Jaz, dekonstruirano, 2024).
LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, ABSURDITÉ
The program consists of films I have selected based on a newly formed reflection stemming from my short experimental film I, Deconstructed (Jaz, dekonstruirano, 2024), an exploration of human nature. The original focus—conflict as the core of human existence, the constant struggle between its cruelty and sensitivity—takes on a new aspect of absurdity today, in light of the degradation of humanity and the illusion of rights on a global scale.
However, not absurdity in the sense of Camus, rather a complete cognitive dissonance that arises when witnessing the worst cruelties, abuses, and lies, which not only go unpunished but are packaged and sold as justice.
Absurdity in the sense of mindlessly scrolling through Instagram Reels, where clips of bodies mangled by bombs alternate with influencers’ tips on makeup and diets.
Absurdity in the sense of the perversion of existence within a system that shamelessly ravages, slaughters, and rapes, all while selling you matcha and lollipops. In a system that does not see you as a free-thinking being, but merely as ore that fuels the machinery of endless profit extraction, until it squeezes the last drop of humanity out of you and spits you out.
This almost comical level of the degradation of human dignity in the collective unconscious finds an outlet in cynical humor, which acts as a bridge between the two extremes of the original conflict. The program attempts to recreate the experience of traveling along this emotional spectrum, which reflects a gliding through images in which banality and humanity, horror and humor, alternate endlessly without resolution.
– Nika Tomažič
PROGRAMME
Curator: Nika Tomažič
Duration: 50′
2003, 54′′
1993, 9′ 11′′
2019, 8′ 17′′
2024, 7′ 50′′
2001, 13′
2014, 2′ 43′′
1990–2000, 9′ 38′′
Nika Tomažič (1995) is a visual artist from Ljubljana who works at the intersection of new media, intermedia, film, and video. In her work, she explores opposites and dualities, simultaneously contrasting and mirroring them. She combines “serious,” profound art with playful, humorous production, thereby relativizing the world, art, and herself. She draws inspiration from natural sciences, technical sciences, philosophy, mysticism, humor, and internet culture. Her films and exhibitions have been presented both in Slovenia and abroad. For the short film On Emotions and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, she received the FIPRESCI Award for Best Slovenian Film at the FeKK Festival in 2020. In 2022, she won first prize for the Automata project at the MFRU Festival (Photo: personal archive)
DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video and new-media art which has been developing since 2005 and is also a broader compendium of SCCA projects that seek to research, present, document and archive video/new-media art.
Videospotting are curated and thematic programs of video art, which have been created since 1994 in the form of lectures, public discussions, exhibitions and screenings.
Production: SCCA-Ljubljana/DIVA Station
Supported by: City of Ljubljana – Department for Culture
