In It Doesn’t Always Have to Be Full Throttle All the Way, the young multimedia author Nika Tomažič plays with the concepts of sensitivity, tenderness and trust with the naive curiosity of a child. The seemingly most fragile intimate emotions are revealed as potential subversive tools in questioning the definition of power. She sees radical emotion as a way of rebellion and revolution in a cold world that cultivates and rewards rationality and optimization.
Nika Tomažič (1995) is a visual artist who lives and works in Ljubljana, having graduated from the AVA Academy of Visual Arts. In her work, she is attracted by opposites and duality, simultaneously contrasting and mirroring their poles. This kind of bipolarity is present both within the concepts themselves as well as in the broader division of her production, which can roughly be divided into “serious”, “deep” art through which she tries to make sense of the world, and seemingly “silly”, “funny”, “superficial” art, through which she reminds herself not to take herself, art and the world too seriously. She often draws inspiration from computer science, natural sciences, and electrical engineering on the one hand, and from philosophy, magic, humor, the internet, and tackiness on the other. She doesn’t limit herself to certain media, but feels closest to new media, intermedia art and film and video. She has participated in several exhibitions in Slovenia, and her films have also been shown abroad.
Curator: Urška Kleindienst
Free admission.
9. 1. – 3. 2. 2024
Organisation: DobraVaga / Kino Šiška.
