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Antimuseo, Tea Hvala, Marge Monko, Alja Piry, Paula Roush, Evren Tekinoktay<\/strong>
\n11 March \u2013 22 April 2022
\nKAPSULA<\/p>\n

>exhibition view @KAPSULA<\/a><\/p>\n

You are cordially invited to attend the preview of the exhibition Thanks for the Flowers<\/strong><\/em> on Friday, 11 March, between 6pm and 8pm at the KAPSULA in Ljubljana.
\n>The exhibition will be on view till 3 April 2022 at the usual opening hours of the Gallery (monday to friday, 12.00 to 18.00, extra viewings upon individual arrangement).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nEvre Tekinoktay, Black Egg<\/em>, 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

After last year\u2019s first edition of the exhibition Parallel Literature<\/em>, the basis of which was the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute Artist Book Collection<\/em>, we continue to research the Collection\u2019s publications. This year\u2019s exhibition includes Artist Books by women authors dealing with the topics of representation and the position of women, women\u2019s work, their roles, etc. The publications selected for the exhibition were created after 2010, in different contexts and environments. What they have in common, however, is that they more or less directly touch on the feminist context, and above all, they relate to the social themes of individual women, which points to the need for structural change in a broader sense.<\/p>\n

Paula Roush and Evren Tekinoktay deal with the representation of women in the media, their objectification, and sexualization. Paula Roush<\/strong>\u2019s publication, entitled Pink Press<\/em> (2014), consists of seventeen full-page collages. They are created from clippings of the Portuguese yellow press and magazines that belonged to her mother. On inconspicuous grey paper, we see black and white images of women whose facial features are removed \u2013 namely, their eyes, nose, mouth, which deprives them of their identity and emphasizes the repetition of a slender body, long hair, etc. Here and there, parts of a body are also cut out or placed in such a way that the body looks deformed.<\/p>\n

Images of women featured in magazines are also present in the colourful book Black Egg<\/em> (2010) by Evren Tekinoktay<\/strong>. The book consists entirely of full-page reproductions of the author\u2019s collages and paintings. Along with various strokes, bands (paper is used as colour), and hand accessories, we can see faces and even full-length images which are also cut-outs. The author found them in old issues of the Danish erotic magazine Variete<\/em>. The larger monochromatic fields that cover the intimate areas are reminiscent of censorship in the Turkish press which the author of Turkish origin remembers from the time of her growing up.<\/p>\n

Tea Hvala<\/strong>\u2019s publication Stiff Smiles<\/em> (2013) reproduces photographs \u2013 images of collective work taken from a book commemorating the 35th<\/sup> anniversary of the founding of the Iskra Kranj work organization. The book features colour pages with circle-shaped cut-outs that draw attention to a selected detail of a photograph before we see it in its entirety. The author\u2019s text is crucial to the project; she considers the changes in work-modes, the relations between co-workers, the values specific to the socialist era and the current times. She observes women in particular, their curiosities, relationships, and stories that can be read beyond seemingly uniform, stiff images robbed of individuality.<\/p>\n

Alja Piry<\/strong>\u2019s book Sixteen Drying Racks<\/em> (2018) subtly hints at women\u2019s work. It features sixteen photos of a drying rack on which towels are dried. The artist learned that on the ground floor of a certain building there is an Asian massage studio, called Golden Phoenix. The head of the studio requires that each client be provided with three towels. The title, which consists of a number, a (banal) motif, and a repetition, clearly refers to the American artist Edward Ruscha.<\/p>\n

On the cover of Marge Monko<\/strong>\u2019s publication, I Don’t Eat Flowers<\/em> (2010), we see a photograph of the author posing as a working woman, with the tall, modern buildings of Tallinn city centre in the background. The piece was created on the 8th<\/sup> of March and refers to the custom of gifting women with flowers in which the original significance of International Women\u2019s Day is forgotten. The artist places a parallel in an art context where women artists (and also their men colleagues) receive flowers at openings but are often not (appropriately) paid for their work.<\/p>\n

The publication CIIA N\u00ba 2 \/ Nuestro Cuerpo, Nuestra Institucion<\/em> (2017), which its author Antimuseo<\/strong>, refers to as art-zine<\/em>, is also explicitly feminist. The aim of the project is to create space for a critical analysis of the art system. The result of an analysis of the selected topic is a series of special publications. They are designed in different formats and contain textual and visual contributions by several authors. This edition addresses the institutionalization of art from a feminist point of view, allowing the authors to use the publication as a medium to create space for discourse outside institutions and actively redirect it into the field of practice.
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P74 Centre and Gallery<\/strong> plays an important role in popularizing the Artist Book in Slovenia: through exhibitions, public tenders, the Seminar, participation in international Artist Book fairs, etc. In 2008 we established KAPSULA, a specialized Artist Books bookstore, and since 2003 we\u2019ve been systematically collecting and archiving Artist Books, journals, magazines, and fanzines. We\u2019ve created the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute Artis Books Collection<\/em>, which today comprises more than 600 units.<\/p>\n

Antimuseo<\/strong> is an experimental art project led by the artist Mar\u00eda Mar\u00eda Acha-Kutscher (1968, Lima, Peru) and independent curator, writer, and artist Tom\u00e1s Ruiz-Rivas (1962, Madrid, Spain). Acha-Kutscher is a visual artist whose work focuses on women, while Ruiz-Rivas\u2019s work seeks to transform the ways in which art is created in Madrid, thus encouraging criticism of cultural institutions and cultural policy.<\/p>\n

Tea Hvala<\/strong> moves among many professions that reflect her interest in the performing arts, literature, comics, pedagogy, political theory, and idiosyncratic activism with a feminist overtone. In the past, she\u2019s co-created the Stripburger<\/em> magazine, the Red Dawn Festival, and the Sektor \u017d<\/em> radio show (Radio \u0160tudent). Since 2018, she has been coordinating art education programs at the Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture \u2013 City of Women.<\/p>\n

Marge Monko<\/strong> (1976, Tallinn, Estonia) is an artist working primarily in the field of photography, installation, and video. She employs methods that include documentation, staging, and appropriation \u2013 often combining these different approaches.<\/p>\n

Alja Piry<\/strong> (1982, Ljubljana) works in various media, the Artist Book being one of her crucial points of focus. The themes she highlights in her works are social relations, changes, renewal, the power of connection, individuality, the role of the artist in society, and the creativity of women.<\/p>\n

Paula Roush<\/strong> (Lisbon) is a conceptual artist, photographer, and the founder of msdm.studio through which she creates art editions, Artist Books, and other publications. She is the author of numerous works that explore how consciousness becomes a photographic object.<\/p>\n

Evren Tekinoktay<\/strong> (1972, Copenhagen, Denmark) is an artist who creates in various media, but her artwork is rooted in collage. She depicts found images and familiar visual tropes to explore the body. Her work incorporates the sensibility of women craft traditions, home or decorative, often with a feminist undertone.
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The programme of the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and by the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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