Phoney Towns II/ Mesta prevare II
videos, texts, photos, 2019 (ongoing project since 2018)
KiBela, space for art (MMC KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9), Maribor
13. 12. 2019 - 11. 1. 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 Sightsi', 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.)
The two featured photo series contain accompanying scripts and other texts:
Photos and texts
IZ PRINCIPA / AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE
Photo collage, documents and texts IZ DEPOJA / FROM THE DEPOT
The set-up of the Phony Towns II video installation, where the viewer digitally manipulates the landscape in order to travel between different geopolitical spaces, is accompanied by photographs, in which 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 is permeated by an erosion of values, the rise of political populism, and the relentlessness of the neoliberal economic fabric of the world.
Phoney Towns is a long runing project that is presented in different variations depending on the gallery space, production and contemporary sociopolitical developments. Part of this project and development is also the experimental film Phoney Sights.
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Photos (3 to 21) made by Gregor Salobir