Cvetka Hojnik and Taja Frešer: The Dark Side of Emotions

Cvetka Hojnik and Taja Frešer: The Dark Side of Emotions
15 November–14 December 2024
MMC KIBLA/KiBela

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition The Dark Side of Emotions by Cvetka Hojnik and Taja Frešer, which will take place on Friday, 15 November 2024, at 7 p.m. in the KiBela, space for art. The project also includes a fashion performance.

INVITATION (PDF)
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION (PDF)

The exhibition is the result of a connection between two artists and creates new reciprocal relationships within the framework of an ambiental visual identity. It builds on a visual and emotional story linked by materials, textures, sounds and movement.

It is about the concept of combining clothing and visual installations to create a holistic image. Moving models that become static objects or sculptures merge with the images, the background and the space. The works thus become metaphors of the mental and the emotional, the real and the spiritual in space and time.

Each composition offers a new scenery, expressiveness and symbolism of forms and colors and a new challenge, both for the authors and for the viewers, who have a tactile interaction with the works. From different angles, they encourage us to meditate on the interweaving of life and death, order and chaos, the conscious and the unconscious. Looking at the works on display makes us reflect on the profound, eternal questions of life and confirms our presence on earth with analogies of transience and spirituality.

The inspiration for the presentation comes from the archetypes, the circle and the square, which stand for man and woman. This supports the concept of emotions and reciprocal relationships and revealing the dark side of emotions as we look into the depths of souls that are connected in different ways. Although we are separated by borders, different languages, different worldviews and habits, we become one in art.

Biographies

Cvetka Hojnik approaches painting with an original and direct, almost sensual experience of materials and with an instinctive feeling for and trust in the cosmic order. Her systematic and studious approach is characterized by modesty in exploring the techniques of traditional artistic creation. She subjects the material to her vision with ease, choosing a range of different artistic mediums to narrate her deeply personal experiences. In harmony with nature, she uses textiles, painting and natural, organic and already used or discarded materials.
She was born in Murska Sobota. After finishing high school in Murska Sobota, she graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, Department of Textiles (mentor Prof. Darko Slavec). She also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. With the work En Soph. Assemblages and Texturing through the Fractals of the Kabbalah she received the title of Master of Fine Arts at the Arthouse – College of Visual Arts. She has received several awards and recognitions for her work (among others, she is a four-time winner of the Maribor Fine Artists Society and recipient of the Golden Osten Award at the Osten Biennale in Skopje, Macedonia). In 2013, she had an overview exhibition of her works at the Lendava Gallery and Museum. On this occasion, her monograph was also published and she received recognition for her cultural achievements at home and abroad.

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Taja Frešer believes in the balance between reality and imagination. Creating this is only possible if we immerse ourselves in the real world and really look inside ourselves to find the differences that combine into a symphony of good and bad, interesting and boring, creating something new and unprecedented.
Taja Frešer graduated from the Maribor School of Design (SŠOM) in 2019 with a major in Design Techniques - Fashion Designer (mentor: Prof. Cvetka Hojnik). After graduating from high school, she enrolled in a BA fashion program in England (Great Britain) at the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts (program director: fashion designer Holly Fulton, other mentors for the collection: jewelry designers Yunus & Eliza), where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 2022 with the final fashion show The Beauty and Horror of Death. She was also selected for a photo shoot with her graduation collection - Graduate Fashion Week, Talent of Tomorrow photo shoot 2022. Her work was also published in ASBO Magazine and her collection was also featured on the Graduate Fashion Week 2023 invitations. She has received several awards and recognitions at home and abroad. She currently lives and works in London.

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