Expositions d'art

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AKSIOMA INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - Ljubljana

  • The emergence of linguistic form remains largely unknown. As the origins of language (1) reach beyond reliable traces or documentation, and as their transparency—or accessibility to analysis—is bound up with the emergence of words themselves, with language that resembles our own enough to allow meaningful comparison, any attempt to construct a definitive timeline or account of its development beyond this condition of comparability is necessarily considered speculative. Historical linguists have approached this question along several lines: anatomical – positing the necessary development of the brain to provide the capacities required for language (Homo erectus, ca. 1.5 million years ago)[PARA] technological – positing critical innovations, such as tool-making (from early stone tools ca. 1.5 million years ago to watercraft ca. 40,000 years ago), whose creation and use could necessitate verbal communication, and cultural – positing signs of symbolic expression (ostrich eggshell beads, ca. 40,000 years ago, and later cave paintings) as the emergence of expressive, symbolic thought. [PARA] The legibility of form—and the comprehension of its genesis—depends on similarity, on the transferability of elements that enable comparison. Assimilation Complete: Autocatalytic Form Replication touches on key structural points in such emergence of form—not only linguistic form, but form itself, in its indeterminate otherness. Assimilation Complete articulates and maps a development no longer bound to the elements of successful particular states—those that might survive and carry forward into subsequent expression. Rather, it traces unsuccessful elements—evolutionary dead ends destined to vanish. In doing so, it inevitably moves beyond the boundaries of knowledge defined by transparency and legibility into the viscous core of speculation. The installation consists of a large-scale imprint situated within the spatial construction of artificial leather patches that serve as its environment. The imprint (2), as a technique of reproduction, destabilises the relationship between the matrix and the copy. Instead of marking a clear distinction between the original and its repetition, it generates a field of uncertainty in which every trace is simultaneously confirmation and erasure of the matrix. Within this field, form ceases to exist simply as content or expression; it asserts itself in space as an anachronistic trace, engaging the real through an enigmatic absence—the absence of the matrix—by which the drawing opens itself to the incursions of ontological contingency. The outcome is not mere repetition but the opening of new trajectories, each carrying its own internal necessity. Hence, Assimilation Complete: Autocatalytic Form Replication is not a mere site of genesis and technical reproduction but also holds its distinct teleology. It distances itself from conventional coordinates of drawing, associated with the principles of articulation or capture, and follows instead the logic of speculative prognosis and abstract asignification, through which graphic transfer unfolds its own inherent development and flight.
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    Samra Buljić: Assimilation Complete: Autocatalytic Form Replication

    24 okt 2025

    Samra Buljić: Assimilation Complete: Autocatalytic Form Replication at AKSIOMA INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Ljubljana
  • When critique obsesses over hidden depths, it mirrors the very logic it opposes, demanding revelation while overlooking the potency of the surface. Are You a Software Update? explores how power might be disrupted not by digging deeper, but engaging its own seemingly superficial terrain: weaponizing seduction in memes, Girls, glitches, and camp; cultivating habits; deploying enchantments. Perhaps the question isn’t whether we are due for an update, but how we might update differently – not by feeding the recursive loops that fragment our movements, but through the ambient transformation that unfolds in the cracks of what is already visible.
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    Tactics&Practice [podcast]: Are You A Software Update?

    28 nov 2025

    Tactics&Practice [podcast]: Are You A Software Update? at AKSIOMA INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Ljubljana
  • Curated by Emily Hsiang-Yun Huang Exhibition 1 October–29 October 2025 KUNSTSURFER (https://kunstsurfer.org/) KUNSTSURFER is a browser-based art space. It runs on an add-on that recognises advertisements on web pages and replaces them with digital exhibitions. To use the add-on, you’ll need to download and install it in your browser. The process is very simple, quick and 100% secure! DOWNLOAD for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/kunstsurfer/) DOWNLOAD for Chromium-based browsers (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kunstsurfer/anobnmpgpkmgdacmdlchaohlcahgcpmo) (Chrome, Opera, Brave, Microsoft Edge, etc.) In the niche corners of the internet lies the fetishized porn genre of “stuck,” where female bodies are wedged into sofas, office chairs or washing machines, immobilized for a fantasy of control-through-surrender. Lotte’s artwork slows these clips down, suspending the moment before release. In doing so, it shifts attention away from sexual climax to the condition of being “stuck” itself, a metaphor for our entrapment in digital platforms. Decelerating the pornographic loop reveals its kinship with compulsive infinite scrolling. Both hinge on embodied movement, where platforms inscribe their tempo into our bodies, short-circuiting our brains with hyperactive reward loops that manufacture desire and then amplify it . This kind of desire doesn’t lead to genuine pleasure or release, but remains suspended, caught in feedback loops: a gooning by design, overstimulated, caught between anticipation and satisfaction. By reframing “stuck” as online advertisements, hijacking the grammar of clickbait and banners. Stuck? Click Here parodies the economy of desire. It reminds us that “stuck” is no longer just a fetish but a default mode of existence online, where even the promise of getting unstuck arrives in the form of self-help clickbait.
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    Lotte Louise de Jong: Stuck?

    29 okt 2025

    Lotte Louise de Jong: Stuck? at AKSIOMA INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Ljubljana