Analogue Diffractions
2023
exhibition: 16mm film kinetic installation (with different lenses), 35mm projections, sound, HD video (11’)
The exhibition represents the current phase of a longtime artistic and research project of the visual artist Neža Knez, which will eventually be condensed into an experimental film. By researching a specific space – her aunt’s former plot in the middle of a forest with abundant vegetation – and delving into childhood memories and experiences, the artist investigates the intertwining of memory and the passing of time. She experiments with materials and records the organic memory and the chemical-physical imprints that plants and objects leave on film in phytograms and photograms.
The exhibition intervenes in space with a kinetic installation of an expanded film projector. The artist focuses on experimenting with the materiality of analogue mechanisms and organic processes that evoke images, light and sound from the film strip. More than in the actual film image, the magic of film is manifested in revealing the process of the complex mechanical structure of image production.
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Curated and written by: Vesna Bukovec
Exhibited: V-F-X Ljubljana (International experimental film festival) SCCA Project Room
Production: V-F-X Ljubljana (International experimental film festival)
Thanks: SCCA Project Room, Peter Cerovšek
Photo: Asiana Jurca Avci