V.S.S.D. – 20 Years Before

September 13 - 28, 2007

You are kindly invited to attend the opening of the exhibition on Thursday, September 13th at 8 pm at Škuc Gallery.

The exhibition seeks to fix a gaze, to show a gaze backwards, into the past (it is just this sort of past), however, as presence, an original, as immediacy it is lost due to the fleeting nature of V.S.S.D. exhibitions. It has gone and does not exist any more, but can only be preserved, unveiled and detected to a minimal extent through fragile documents and other bearers, representatives of the past, such as photography.

Therefore, the V.S.S.D. exhibition will literally showcase the past, which is not yet history, as history is continually rewritten, revised, censored and erased. We are not interested in history here, nor 'mind the gap' and excavating bones. The content of the exhibition will be, to use fashionable terms, OFF-LINE and not ON-LINE, as V.S.S.D. is not here and now anymore.

Inevitably, we must asks ourselves about time, how this form, so-called history and the so-called past, still exists, when the world is obviously fleeting and changing increasingly quickly. While a new world is being established, an old world is being erased. How can we sort out memories, when this world is increasingly instantaneous and faster, focused on now, today, the brevity of the present moment.

 However, the exhibition does not carve a tombstone - not at all. The exhibition will not be made of stone; it is multilayered and offers plenty of information and illustrations: documents and photographs, working visual materials, sketches, drawings, brochures, posters, texts, statements, word compositions, sound, etc. Despite its intentional narrowness – i.e. focusing only on documents and documentary photography – it is still based on a broad framework. During the preparations, we invited a number of individuals, including philosophers, critics, art historians, artists, art enthusiasts, collectors, politicians, media personalities and viewers (some 110 altogether) to take part in a survey and comment on how well they know or do not know, and see or do not see, the work of V.S.S.D. The results will be featured in a book.

The author of the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue is Alen Ožbolt, assisted by Tevž Logar.

Special thanks to: Marko Modic, Miha Škrlep, Jane Štravs, Božidar Dolenc, Bojan Salaj. Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art, LPP - Ljubljana Public Transport 

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The programme of Škuc Gallery is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture.
 

For further information contact Alenka Gregorič, artistic director of the Škuc Gallery on +386 1 251 65 40, galerija.skuc@guest.arnes.si.