The work Space Multiples by artist Lina Rica stems from a reflection on different kinds of spaces (external, internal, referential, mimetic, generated, virtual) and their merging into a single whole.
It is composed of an original recording of the sky and a computer-generated image, reshaped through processes of multiplication, mirroring, and editing. These techniques diffuse the image and strip it of its direct representational function. What was initially static becomes dynamic, the picture is temporalised, and its visual material continuously shifts, changes, and opens up new spatial dimensions.
The horizon, which usually provides direction and serves as a key point of orientation, here loses its guiding role. It is transformed into a visual sign that reads as a metaphor for the infinite layering and overlapping of time and space. In this way, the linear experience of the image tilts toward a sense of a cyclical, timeless process that transcends everyday perception.
An illusion of abstract immaterial architecture is created, built from rhythm, repetition, and the breaking of the image. This seemingly intangible architecture unfolds as a minimal yet intense space, functioning in a metaphysical and hypnotic way. The work invites the viewer into an experience where the image is no longer perceived as a record of reality, but as an infinite space of meditative contemplation in which the boundaries between inside and outside, between the real and the imagined, dissolve.
Lina Rica (Makarska, 1980) is an intermedia artist working in the fields of conceptual, experimental, and new media art. Using video, graphics, light, photography, and animation, she creates installations that explore social processes of past and present worlds and their impact on the individual. In 2008, she completed her master’s degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, receiving the award for best thesis in the Department of Printmaking. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and published both regionally and internationally. Her prints are part of the collections of the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, the Riko Art Collection, Oficina Arara in Porto, Longest Night in Gothenburg, the Critical Mass Portfolio, and the Femicomix Portfolio, with several awards recognising her achievements in printmaking. In 2025, her kinetic light installation HOME was permanently installed at Metelkova in Ljubljana, addressing issues of belonging, public space, and community. She also participated in the 2022 group exhibition Returning the Gaze at Cukrarna, which presented the creative processes and practices of nearly 60 Slovenian and Slovenia-based women artists from the 1990s to the present. Between 2012 and 2016, she co-led, with Boštjan Čadež, the association for contemporary art production and promotion GaleRica, based in her home in Makarska. Her video performances have been presented at numerous festivals, shows, and events in museums, clubs, theatres, and autonomous cultural centres, often in collaboration with other artists. Since 2019, she is a founding member of the audiovisual experimental ensemble Marta Fakuch and, since 2020, a member of the audiovisual trio Etceteral. She lives and works in Ljubljana.
20. 9. 2025–20. 9. 2026
Organisation: Kino Šiška.
