Meta Mramor: Smrt podobe

𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫: 𝐒𝐦𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐛𝐞
25. 3.–26. 5. 2025

Stekleni atrij ljubljanske Mestne hiše
📌Odprtje razstave: torek, 25. 3. 2025, ob 18. uri

Na razstavi Smrt podobe samostojno razstavlja umetnica Meta Mramor, katere primarni medij izražanja je steklo. Prestolniški javnosti se predstavlja s štirimi izjemno osebnimi projekti, ki v svoji srčiki plastijo introspektivno soočanje s prevpraševanjem človeške samopodobe. Njena premišljevanja o dvomih, anksioznosti, ujetosti v lastno telo in njegovo nezanesljivo percepcijo rezultirajo v delikatnem prepletu materialov in poglobljene lirične vsebine; izpostavljeni so projekti Avtoportret (2018), Motnja telesne podobe (2022, 2023), Ok sm (2023) in Utopitev (2024). Njihova predstavitev na retrospektivno zastavljeni in kronološko zaokroženi razstavi nastopa kot intimna prvoosebna pripoved, po drugi strani pa predstavlja tehnološko dovršen fragment potenciala uporabe stekla. Skozi natančnost, tehnično dovršenost, eksperimentalnost in prepričljivo vsebino umetniških del raziskuje, kako fizikalne značilnosti stekla transcendirajo njegovo sporočilnost znotraj umetniškega izraza in razdelanih konceptov, ki v tokratnem primeru terapevtskega opolnomočenja ostajajo v sferi nepredvidljivega, intimnega in krhkega.
Maša Žekš, kuratorka

𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖 𝙈𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙧 (1998) je oblikovalka in umetnica, ki ustvarja na presečišču stekla, unikatnega oblikovanja in kiparstva. Zaključila je dodiplomski in podiplomski študij unikatnega oblikovanja na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje Univerze v Ljubljani. V svojem delu raziskuje osebne, ranljive in telesne vidike materialnosti, prek katerih vzpostavlja povezavo med materialom, ustvarjalcem in občinstvom. Študijsko se je izpopolnjevala na Češkem, v Nemčiji in Estoniji, trenutno pa se v sklopu doktorskega študija izobražuje na Poljskem, kjer se osredotoča na družbeno vlogo stekla in preučuje njegove »nadmaterialne« dimenzije. Razstavlja na skupinskih razstavah tako doma kot v tujini. Mramor je prejemnica oblikovalske nagrade Symington Family Estates Glassberries Design Award 2022 (Porto, 2022) in nominacije za nagrado za podporo umetnosti na področju slikarstva in risbe STRABAG Artaward International 2024 (Dunaj, 2024).

Foto: Meta Mramor, Utopitev III, skanografija
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𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐫: 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞
25. 3.–26. 5. 2025

Glass Atrium, Ljubljana Town Hall
📌Exhibition opening: 25 March 2025, 6pm

Death of the Image is a solo exhibition by Meta Mramor, an artist whose primary medium of expression is glass. For the public in Slovenia’s capital, she has put on display four highly personal projects that, at their heart, layer introspective reconciliation with reflections on the human self-image. Her meditations on doubts, anxiety, entrapment in one’s own body and its unreliable perception result in a delicate interplay of materials and profoundly lyrical subject matter. The projects on view include Self-Portrait (2018), Body Image Distortion (2022, 2023), I’m OK (2023) and Drowning (2024). Their presentation in this retrospectively conceived and chronologically organised exhibition appears as an intimate first-person narrative but also a technologically sophisticated fragment of the potential the use of glass has to offer. Through the precision, technical perfection, experimentalism and compelling substance of the artworks, it explores how the physical properties of glass transcend its meaningfulness within artistic expression and expounded concepts, which in this case of therapeutic empowerment remain in the realm of the unpredictable, intimate, and fragile.
Maša Žekš, curator

𝙈𝙚𝙩𝙖 𝙈𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙧 (1998) is a designer and artist at the intersection of glass, applied arts, and sculpture. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in applied arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana. Her work explores the personal, vulnerable and bodily aspects of materiality, through which she establishes a connection between the material, the maker and the audience. Mramor has studied in the Czech Republic, Germany and Estonia, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Poland, focusing on the social role of glass and examining its “transmaterial” dimensions. She has exhibited in group exhibitions both in Slovenia and internationally. For her work, she received the Symington Family Estates Glassberries Design Award 2022 (Porto, 2022) and was nominated for the STRABAG Artaward International 2024 for the support of art in the fields of painting and drawing (Vienna, 2024).

Photo: Meta Mramor, Drowning III, scanography