Yours / Tvoja

2007 September, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Venue

Wednesday 3rd October at 8 pm (within the Humor Works project)
City of Women 07 Festival, within the Humor Works project
Interactive and site-specific installation
SKUC Gallery and SEM Cafe

Cast & Crew

Author: Barbara Kapelj Osredkar
Technical implementation: Miran Sustersic
Graphic and sound animation of posters: Luka Umek
Production: City of Women Association
In collaboration with: Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Organizacija d.o.o., Ljubljana City Museum, Technical Museum of Slovenia, National Museum of Contemporary History, NUK – National and University Library, Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, Maribor Regional MuseumWith the support of: Beti d.d. Slovenija, Emporium

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About Yours

In an atmosphere flooded with »We want foreign, we don’t have our own«, when we sink our claws in Zara’s five-euro T-shirts, while the Beti Metlika yarn and clothes manufacturer is laying-off women workers, I got this passionate nostalgia for the times when I used to bury myself into my grandmother’s chest of drawers. I rummaged among boxes filled with exercise books in which my mother had used to stick the »coloured« faces of magnificent Filmski Vestnik movie stars, mixed with in order to keep her feet on the ground various propagandistic commercial advertisements. In the midst of this romantic dream, there were these images of women which – instead of inciting the making of phone calls – invited you to do the laundry. I decided to gather and revive long-forgotten female faces of Slovenian posters, and erected a monument where they are engraved, in the intimacy, and finally as well where my grandmother used to put them: among bras, silk ribbons and lace.

Media images have the power to work both on a personal as well as a social level, thus they become not only an address, but also a dialogue. This is what Barbara Kapelj Osredkar, the author of a space installation entitled Yours, is playing with when involving the spectator in an interaction that allows them to create His/Her Own in the given space. The artistic endeavours of architect and director Barbara Kapelj Osredkar are indeed broad: she is the author of performances, site-specific installations, and is also involved in set and costume design. Her most acclaimed projects encompass the following performances: Zenska Dela: Obrobljanje, Vozlanje, Pletenje, Tkanje (2000) at Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana), Anno Demoni (2002) at the Ana Desetnica Festival (Ljubljana) and Gon (2005) at Ljubljana’s old post office.

Between 5th and 13th October Barbara Kapelj Osredkar will also produce a site-specific intervention at SEM Cafe. The display of window dummies will sport T-shirts printed with motifs of images of women from Slovenian advertisements produced between 1920 and 1970. T-shirts will also be on sale.


A video of a part of the installation Your’s in the Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana.

Press

Recenzija Tvoja Delo
Recenzija Tvoja Delo Polet
Recenzija Tvoja Dnevnik Humor dela