Eva Petrič erfreut die Wiener Kunstfreunde im April mit einer neuen Ausstellung. Die Vernissage findet am 4. April um 19 Uhr und wird mit der Ansprache von Mag. Nina Katschnig (Museum Gugging) eröffnet. Weitere Details zum Projekt:
“Each and everyone, existing on the surface of our planet, has a shadow,” explains Eva Petrič, multimedia artist from Slovenia living and working in Vienna, prior to her exhibition prepared especially for Stilwerk Vienna under the title Shadow Refinery. “We are producing shadows even when we are underground if we are close to source of light. Although shadows belong to everyone, our eyes tend not to notice them. Why then are they here, amongst us? According to Rudolf Arnheim, the role of shadows is to accentuate for us all that, which exists in the reality among us, and which we need to notice. Shadows thus help us to see,” says Eva Petric who will focus here at Stilwerk especially on the absence of shadows that she noticed at the Design Tower. “Namely, every aspect of home, from garden to bathroom is taken care of. But what about shadows?” asks the young artist. In her forthcoming exhibition at the Stilwerk in Vienna in April Eva Petric will focus thus on shadows and how they define our environment – from architecture to home to our psyche. Her installations of analog photographs on transparent plexi glass will stem from her project Gr@y Matter – language of shadows in which she investigates communication abilities of shadows and for which she received the prestigious Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant in 2010, awarded to only one young artist in Europe each year. Yet here at Stilwerk she will show also the other pole of her photographic work, her colored staged photographs created in a performative way, to accentuate the search for ephemeral, the other, for shadows…
Eva Petrič, born 1983 in Slovenia, graduated cum laude in Psychology and Visual Art in 2008, Webster University Vienna, and completed her MFA degree in 2010 in New Media at the Transart Institute New York/Berlin (mentors Martina Corgnati, Italy, and Lucien Clergue, France, current president of the French Academy of Arts). Currently she lives in Vienna, engaged in photography, video, performance and creative writing. This year she has been nominated to represent Slovenia at the Venice Art Biennale 2013. She was awarded the Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation Grant for 2010 and the 2010 Grant of the Ministry for Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. For her video Army of me she received the Čižek award and the recognition as the best short digital video in Slovenia in 2006. Her work was selected as „Art critics‘ choice“ for February 2008 by the Association of the Slovenian Art Critics, and for the International Print Center New York (IPCNY) 2011 Summer exhibition, as well as for the Beijing Internatonal Art Biennale 2012 in Beijing, China. She was finalist for the Pfann Ohman Preis 2011 and Hubert Sielecki Video Preis 2011. As part of Z+E+M art collective she was finalist in 2009 International open call of ID Consonni, for public art intervention in Sondika, Spain. She exhibited in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Germany, Macedonia, Argentina, China, Philippines and USA. She is the author of two novels, published in five languages and a collection of poetry, published in two languages, illustrated with her photographs.
“Each media creates a unique atmosphere that differs from others, despite their common aim – to communicate. Photography, equalizing past and future into present, as of now defines me best,” says Eva Petrič on her work in photography. “I am interested in creating spaces and so I strive to make photographs, be these in the form of images or installations, that are by themselves powerful enough to change the space around them in such a way that they suck viewers in. From the existing spaces I am challenged to develop new space(s). I take the space and develop it further, by extending it, changing it, adapting it to an already existing space, out of which or inside of which potential exists for even many more spaces. I am interested in the phenomena of exponenting – on how may exponents I can reduce a certain existing physical space and/or transform it into many more.“