Ogenj, voda, zemlja, bol – Urška Preis
Fire, Water, Earth and Pain is an intermedia exhibition that approaches the concept of pain as a fundamental natural state. In line with the themes, the materials used are either natural – biodegradable or recycled. The exhibition includes outdoor metal works and a glass aquarium, as well as found objects, large-scale knitting (made by the artist), wax remnants, compositions made from field recordings of natural materials and play with them – all set in an installation of five DIY speakers with a metal plate. It is of great importance to respect the morality and ethics of the author and the concept when creating an artwork.
Through three interwoven spatial installations, the artist creates an environment in which she positions the concept of pain as a process force that transcends binary divisions between the human and the natural, between the subject and the environment. In this context, the exhibition starts from the premise that pain is not simply a somatic or phenomenological experience, but is constituted as a material-discursive process expressed in transitions between the material and the sensory, the individual and the collective, which arises within a network of relationships between natural substances, bodies and the environment.
