ana cigon

Solo exhibition. Videos, texts, photographies
KiBela, space for art (MMC KIBLA), Maribor
13 Dec 2019 - 11 Jan 2020

Concept and realisation of the exhbition: Ana Čigon
Assistance with installations concept: Andreja Kopač
Voice for the video 'From the Programme': Niko Goršič
List of the collaborators of the film 'Phoney Sights', which is also part of the exhibition can be found here
Curator: Živa Kleidienst
Production: Društvo X-OP (The exhbition is part of the project Risk Change (2016-2020), financed by Creative Europe.) Co-financing of the film: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia \

Exhibition website: http://www.x-op.eu/en/novica/ana-cigon
For earlier and later projects of the Phoney Towns exhibition series check: Phoney Towns IV, Phoney Towns III, and Phoney Towns

Phoney Towns is a long runing project that is presented in different variations depending on the gallery space, town in which it is presented. Part of this project and development is also the experimental film Phoney Sights. In the set-up of the Phony Towns II video installation the viewer travels between different geopolitical spaces, digitally manipulated landscapes. In the accompanying photographies and texts the topic of discussion shifts to local cultural-political issues in the city of Maribor.

"Phony Towns II humorously deals with the alarming condition of our contemporary society, which, due to capitalist appetites and an uncontrolled desire for power by the ruling elites, is permeated by an erosion of humanist values and collective consciousness, the rise of political populism and structural violence, dehumanization of interpersonal relationships and the impoverishment of the most vulnerable social groups."

Please see exhibition pdf for full text about the exhibition written by curator Živa Kleidienst.