Tišina - Nevena Aleksovski

Vernissage

27.11.2024, 19:00
echoraum
Sechshauser Straße 66, 1150 Wien

Solo exhibition: 27.11.- 20.12.2024

Drawing series presented at the exhibition titled Tišina (meaning silence in all ex–Yugoslavian languages) was created during the artist Nevena Aleksovski’s stay at Artist-in-residence programme in Vienna supported by the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia. Nevena was visiting various events taking part at echoraum in September 2024 and was creating spontaneous drawings, sketches, visual notes etc. inspired by the live acts, different experimental sound performances, screenings and discursive programmes at echoraum. Through this series of works the artist aimed to translate various impressions from the sound, experimental and theoretical field into her specific visual language and the medium of drawing. She thus created multi-layered, expressive and fragmented visual work which responded to the spectrum of emotional, mental and spiritual states triggered by rich experimental programme at echoraum.

Another aspect of this series of works is also the artist’s reflection of the phenomenon of silence as the integral and constitutional part of each sound and musical performance as well as the huge importance of it in our navigating the experience of sound in general. The artist was therefore interested in the possibilities of translating the experience of silence from the sound into the visual field. By titling the exhibition Tišina which is the word for silence in all of the ex – Yugoslavian languages, the artist is also referring to the existence of huge ex – Yugoslavian diaspora in Vienna as well as to various aspects of the questions of identity, integration and migration experiences. Through this series of work she therefore aimed to create visual narratives that are reflecting physical, emotional, symbolic and socio-political nature of silence.

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