LUCIJA KLAUŽ 2022 (ENG)
GuestRoomMaribor 2022
LUCIJA KLAUŽ
Lucija Klauž is currently finishing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in the field of video and new media. For the last two years, she’s been writing about art and literature for Radio Študent. She is also working with Film Factory, an organization focusing on film literacy and the education of youth and their educators.
In her artistic practice, she explores text and its smaller components. With rewriting, copying, and the use of traditional printing techniques she explores repetitive gestures that instate or are used to instate a text in its environment. She looks for anomalies that point out its arbitrary nature like palindromes and anagrams and the ways in which a text loses its meaning with repeated translations and mistakes in rewritings.
More about her work by Celica Fitz: https://2022.intunis.net/destroyed-by-repetition/
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Lucija Klauž, nothing ever Lucija Klauž, happened except its place, print, 2022
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Lucija Klauž, Kložna, Photographs, 2021
Lucija Klauž was a part of YOUNG MASTERS programme in the frame of INTERFERENCE Light Art Project in Tunis that was funded by Bettina Pelz and Aymen Gharbi. INTERFERENCE is an international light art project dedicated to art in public space. Since 2016 a community of professionals and volunteers is producing the international art projects in the Medina of Tunis. Local and international artists are developing site-specific artwork working with light and light-based media as their artistic material. Artworks are on display for 4 days and fill the streets of the Medina by night. Since 2022 also GuestRoomMaribor is a collaborator of the INTERFERENCE Young Masters programme, as one of the organisations that fosters emerging artists.
The YOUNG MASTERS by INTERFERENCE is a program for artists as well as for curating and producing, art meditation, art criticism, public communication, and organizing and administering public art projects. In series of lectures, workshops, and co-working groups every edition is accompanied by a community of volunteers, all learning jointly how to make space for contemporary art in public space.
GuestRoomMaribor 28. 7. 2022
Celica Fitz
The video installation of Slovenian artist Lucija Klauž deals with the transformation of nature’s images through cultures, regions, and media. In her conceptual works, she often analyzes cultural techniques and media theory using translation and repetition. In this work, she refers also to biology and gazes at nature. The process of transfer of energy in photosynthesis inspired her to a cyclical artistic process, seeing distance and hermeneutics as membranes of transformation of information.
Celica Fitz
Lucija Klauž: REFLECTION SYNONYMS
Location: Dar Ben Achour, Medina, TunisThe video installation of Slovenian artist Lucija Klauž deals with the transformation of nature’s images through cultures, regions, and media. In her conceptual works, she often analyzes cultural techniques and media theory using translation and repetition. In this work, she refers also to biology and gazes at nature. The process of transfer of energy in photosynthesis inspired her to a cyclical artistic process, seeing distance and hermeneutics as membranes of transformation of information.
The context-specific work is inspired by the awareness of the artist, that her view of Tunis’ nature would never be congruent with that of a local. In conceptualizing her work she analyzed this fact in exchange with a local: Meriam Gaied photographs her surrounding nature. While being captured as an image and digitally sent to Klauž, the experience, perception, and view of the locals have been transferred into media, into data. This change causes a loss of depth – be it the pixels or the cultural-based gaze, the artist recognizes. Out of the surface of the image, Klauž recreates a new depth to the data. She is transforming the information of the image – like light values – into a new system of form: A 3D animation emerges. Onsite it is projected in the Library of Dar Ben Achour, specified on the collection and archiving of Tunisian literature and history. Being presented on this site the installation refers to its surroundings, displaying the original photo alongside the new animation. “The work is a process of exchange and transformation of material. From person to person from an environment to another environment,” explains Lucija Klauž.