Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)
We are pleased to announce that the new exhibition season of 2025 at the Filodrammatica Gallery (Korzo 28/1, Rijeka) will be opened by new media artist Gaia Radić with her interactive installation Chora.
The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday, January 9th at 7 PM, after which it will remain on view until January 30th. Admission is free.
Gallery opening hours:
Monday – Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | 5 – 8 p.m.
Saturday 5 – 8 p.m.
– closed on Sundays and public holidays
Conceived as a conceptual entity of the same name, Chora is created as a configuration of material and immaterial elements, representing an autonomous force that exists both in the physical space of the gallery and in the virtual 3D space projected onto two oval plexiglass panels. The installation is a result of Gaia Radić’s collaboration with the Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art from Ljubljana.
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
“With her immersive video installation Chora, artist Gaia Radić introduces a new chapter in the body of virtual worlds that perform as perceptual narratives and transform the spaces they inhabit into autopoietic worlding systems.
In Chora, the space waits in stillness for a visitor. Upon their arrival, a split point of view emerges within the expansive virtuality. Through two opposing apertures, a geological terrain, seemingly unbound by any specific site, begins to unfold. The world, comprised of interconnected lagoons, appears to overflow with an ethereal primordial liquid, keeping the space in constant flux.
This steady stream guides the visitor’s eye along the creased topology that is, in turn, slowly winding its way through the viewer as well. In this encounter, the viewer’s perceptual organs become channels through which the space reflects upon itself. Chora both shapes and is shaped by its material host and realises its generative potential when the physical and virtual realms meet through the viewer’s perception.
The heterotopic space functions as a sieve where one world is reflected and refracted into another, producing a self-referential reality that continually reforms itself. For as soon as self-formulation begins, dissipation follows. When the viewer leaves, the landscape settles, and Chora returns to its dormant state until the arrival of a new body.”
— Maja Burja
Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more
GAIA RADIĆ
CHORA
☛Filodrammatica Gallery, Korzo 28/1, Rijeka
9 – 30 January, 2025
EXHIBITION OPENING:
Thursday, 9 January, at 7 PM
GALLERY OPENING HOURS:
Monday – Friday 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. | 5 – 8 p.m.
Saturday 5 – 8 p.m.
(closed on Sundays and public holidays; contact us to arrange another time of your visit)
Author: Gaia Radić
Author of the text: Maja Burja
Music and sound: Gašper Torkar
Technical assistance: Oskar Kandare
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 2024
The project was created as part of the U30+ programme, curated in 2024 by Maja Burja.
Financial support: The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana and The Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
The final projections were rendered in cooperation with the Czech National Supercomputing Center IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava.
Thanks: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, Projekt Atol Institute, Andrej Škufca
GAIA RADIĆ
