World of Art | 20th Generation | Series of exhibitions in public space
Exhibition
13 May – 7 July 2025
TAM-TAM Street Gallery on Vegova ulica in Ljubljana
Opening: Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 5 pm
Viewing of the exhibition with the artist and curator (Ljubljana Art Weekend 2025): Friday, 23 May 2025, 2 pm
Eva Bevec has always loved collecting things – objects, words, images – which has gradually become a central part of her art practice. Lately, she has been collecting utilitarian photographs and images that catch her eye as she comes across them online. In this way, she creates her own incidental digital archive of screenshots and downloaded files that fill her hard drives, folders and desktops.
Into the jumbo triptych, she has incorporated a screenshot from a YouTube video demonstrating how to cut up a chicken, a screenshot from the Tinder app (used with permission of the person portrayed), and an image of bird-protection stickers designed to prevent birds from flying into windows from an online shop. We are constantly surrounded by such images and create them ourselves, but do not usually pay much aesthetic attention to them, as they are primarily created and circulated for the simple purpose of conveying information. Within the context of the exhibition, they take on a new role: freed from their original function, their pictorial nature and juxtaposition address the viewer’s inclination to make connections and search for meaning. This coincides with the artist’s fascination with the strange and the absurd as an integral part of everyday banality, which is also her main source of inspiration.
Lucija Lunder, curator of the exhibition, will talk to the artists at the opening.
Used files: Untitled-1.jpg; IMG_8182.jpg; Nalepke Ptice.jpg
Eva Bevec (1998) is a designer, visual artist and photographer based in Ljubljana. She completed her BA in Graphic Design at UL ALUO (2020) and her MA in Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands (2023). She has exhibited her work at home and abroad (including Dutch Design Week, Biennale Brumen, MSUM). In her practice, she employs the methods of essay film, documentary photography and archival research to question the seemingly everyday and banal aspects of her surroundings, disclosing deeper social, political and aesthetic issues.
Artist: Eva Bevec
Curator: Lucija Lunder
Mentors: Urška Aplinc, Tia Čiček, Lara Plavčak
Translation: Arven Šakti Kralj
For 2025, the TAM-TAM Street Gallery exhibitions are prepared by the participants of the 20th generation of the World of Art, School for Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing (SCCA-Ljubljana). The school’s programme is developed in partnership with Cukrarna/MGML and with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
Production: TAM-TAM Institute, World of Art/SCCA-Ljubljana
Support: Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture
