ana cigon

Solo exhibition. Videos, texts, adaptation of a folk song and photos, 2020
Likovni salon, Celje
17 Jan 2020 - 8 Mar 2020

Exhibition text

Concept and realisation of the exhibition: Ana Čigon
Assistance with installations concept: Andreja Kopač
Vocal-instrumental ensemble of the III. Primary School Celje
Choirmaster: Špela Lipuš
Assistance with concept for the poem and organisation of the choir: Andreja Džakušič
Score editing: Vasja Progar
Thanks to: Andreje Džakušič and Marie Lucie Cruz Correia
List of the collaborators of the film 'Phoney Sights', which is also part of the exhibition can be found here
Curator: Maja Hodošček
Co-financing of the film: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Exhibition website: https://csu.si/en/exhibition/ana-cigon-phony-towns-iii
For earlier and later projects of the Phoney Towns exhibition series check: Phoney Towns IV, Phoney Towns II, and Phoney Towns

Phony Towns III installation invites reflection on the geopolitical dimensions of power.

"It is an outline of a time, where the current political changes are significantly transforming the image of the city, social dynamics and quality of life within society. In the installation, the viewer travels through local, European and global spaces as well as space itself. He observes the footage of urban landscapes, in which different voices speak to the towns and cities, countries and wider territories. These tell of mutual relations, marked by demarcations and divisions when capitalism had already substantially and almost irreversibly broken down the networks of solidarity and the pursuit of a better future. It is precisely the power or dependence on capital that is the common binder of the cities and territories that are shifting the care for its citizens to the care for the creation of economic value. Phony Towns III is an installation that is supplemented with each new presentation through the introduction of new contents tied to the space where the work is exhibited. For the Celje edition, the artist has addressed the environmental issues and the local legacy of industrial plants, inscribed in the controversial pollution of the air and soil within the city."

Please see exhibition pdf for full text about the exhibition written by curator Maja Hodošček.