The On How to Recycle Time project finds its substantive starting points in five questions through which the author wants to establish a dialogue with the viewer and herself.
Over the past two years, she has, like many, suffered some major personal losses, which left behind both emotional and physical voids. The weight of memories and abandoned material possessions increased along with the weight of the global epidemiological situation. The distance we have learned to maintain with each other, and the time that has in one way or another caused irreversible personal distress, become for her a space she can in no way fill.
With the questions posed – how to recycle time? What happens when nothing is happening? Timeless or timeful? Does your time run or walk? Are you leaving already? – she is entering this space mentally. She assigns it a physical shape when she places the happening in the house of her deceased grandparents. She is interested in the difference between losing time and its lostness. “Why do we say that good things are timeless? Wouldn’t you rather they were full of time? After all, time is what puts life into perspective with its passing. Why do we like to talk about time as property, but at the same time it remains one of the few things that will always be out of our control in and of itself?”
In the work, she confronts the emptiness of the house and uses the existing objects in it to build new physical images that are simultaneously the ghosts of the past and her closest friends.
Ava Tribušon Ovsenik is a student at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO) in Ljubljana, where in June 2021, she graduated summa cum laude from the Department of Visual Communications, majoring in Illustration and receiving the ALUO award. She presented her thesis work in the form of a solo exhibition in the project space of the Ulay Foundation in Ljubljana the same month. She is currently continuing her studies at the Department of Painting, majoring in Graphics, and she has also gained academic experience abroad. In 2018, she participated in a summer programme at the Parsons School of Design college of The New School in New York City. In 2019, she attended the Joint Design Summer School: Sensory Experience Design workshop at the University of Anhalt, Dessau. In 2019/20, she went to Berlin on an international student exchange. In 2021, she was part of the second generation of the Academia Nuts educational program, run under the auspices of the Ulay Foundation. This year she became a member of the Ljubljana Fine Artists Society, participated in the annual ZDSLU MLADI UMETNIKI 2022 exhibition at the May Salon and was part of the Rise of Women in Culture in Western Balkans art residency in Zadar. She currently lives and works in Ljubljana. In September, she will start a master’s programme in Fine Art Print at the Royal College of Art in London.
Organisation: Kino Šiška.
Free entry.
28. 7. – 13. 8. 2022
