Shooting the Cloud

2025

In co-authorship with Vida Guzmić, and collaboration with Vladimir Đurđević

Production: Studio Pangolin, Cirkulacija2

Supported by: Ministry of Culture Slovenija, Ministry of Culture Croatia, City of Zagreb, City of Ljubljana

In collaboration: Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ), Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO)

Thanks: Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb (new media department), Ivan Slipčević

Text by: Klara Debeljak

Foto: Katja Goljat

Neža Knez and Vida Guzmić build soft bridges between empirical materials and the appropriation of scientific methods, which in their practice transform into subjective connections of perceptions of temperature, environment, history, and beliefs. With the plurality of perspective, they blur the boundary between meteorological phenomena and the instruments used to measure them, as well as between institutional frameworks of reality and the apparent possibilities of control.

Their practice manifests as a mutation of media communication forms. Associatively, they collect and assemble materials from virtual archives, mobile weather applications, and experimental ethnographic research. Slides from the Meteorological University in Belgrade and other materials from meteorological stations in Ljubljana and Zagreb, at multiple locations, intertwine with intimate authorial digital and analog recordings on 8 mm and 16 mm film and are presented in spatial screen installations that follow a hidden logic. The screens are placed along an apparent path through the space, guiding us through the artists’ creative and research phases, as well as the canons of the history of weather manipulation.

Installation: 4 channel video, 8 channel sound, metal table, objects, dry ice, DIY sound instrument, drawings

Knez, Guzmić, and Đurđević, through precise reformulations of images, texts, and sounds, create an experiential environment that gives the impression that one’s feet are no longer on the ground, but on water in the air. Water, in its many forms, flows through us, evaporates, cools, and warms in cycles of constantly changing interpretations of the past and the atmosphere, which remains beyond control—regardless of attempts at prediction and regulation.

Excerpt from a text by [Klara Debeljak]

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