Crash & burn - Sara Bezovšek and Nejc Trampuž

We are opening an exhibition of two intermediate artists of the younger generation in the Y Gallery, with which we also want to start a new annual ECOART Festival to address environmentally and socially engaged art.

The exhibition titled Crash & Burn highlights the works of intermediate artist and photographer Nejc Trampuž, who in his practice explores topics related to ecology and the exploitation of natural resources, transforming them into artistic projects. Through her practice, visual artist Sara Bezovšek explores the effects of Internet culture and social media on the viewer.

The exhibition is thus a spatial arrangement where contents and images found on various social networks, online platforms and the artists’ personal archives fuse together. The exhibition combines the real world with online landscapes, in which we may (perhaps) find ourselves in the future. Blending computer-generated images with real-world elements found on various online platforms, the works depict fictional landscapes saturated with information. Such loading of images enables the artists to make their works multifaceted, both in interpretation and in placement into different contexts.



Sara Bezovšek is a visual artist who creates in the fields of new media, experimental film, and graphic design. She researches, stores and collects visual references that she comes across while surfing the web and watching films and TV series. Through appropriation, she creates new narratives, where she is interested in what content people consume, what they share on social media, how visual material in disseminated on the Internet, and how it changes and affects users within various contexts.
In the context of the post-internet paradigm, Bezovšek thus creates a space where online content and Internet references are a consistent and indispensable part of the world in which we live. She has a master’s degree in visual communication, majoring in Graphic Design, at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. Since 2018, she has presented herself at several group exhibitions, and she has also held solo exhibitions in the Aksioma Project Space, Kamera Gallery in Kino Šiška, Osma/zi, DobriVaga and in GT22. She is also the recipient of the Prešeren Prize for Students.

Nejc Trampuž (1993) is an intermediate artist and photographer of the younger generation. He graduated (with honours) and holds a master’s degree (with the ALUO Award) in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He has been delving into the world of photography since primary school. After high school, his postgrad studies soon turned into socially, technologically, and recently especially environmentally engaged criticisms. He communicates these through his works, often in the form of interactive installations that explore the boundaries of the photographic medium, then transcend it and move into other media and approaches (video, sound, projection, light, collage, automation, interactivity, use of modern technology, glitch, etc.). Trampuž has also been an active member of the Youth for Climate Justice (Y4CJ) movement for several years, where he mainly participates in the preparation of campaigns and media content.