Curator
Tadej Pogačar
The topic that Sašo Vrabič has been exploring in recent years is the problematisation of the private and its exposure to the public – the public eye. The project Privat(e) questions the sphere of “private” and confronts it with the public. In his projects Sound Paintings, Sunday in Bežigrad, Vogue and The Great Expectation, Vrabič assumed the position of a hidden observer, a voyeur.
“The state of surveillance and control in modern Western societies, aided by modern means of telecommunications (internet, mobile phones, etc.), triggers spontaneous defencive reactions: “it forces a person to an escapist retreat, a retreat into privacy, into his own world”, emphasises Vrabič. In the Privat(e) project, Vrabič radicalised the position of the observer. He delved into the conceptual recording of visual and sound sensations in the private environment of his apartment, a closed intimate space.
The interactive, intermediate installation contains paintings of visual images that were created based on video and photographic images. An element of certain images are short sound recordings. The second part of the exhibition is an audio/video installation consisting of video projections and audio segments recorded at the observed location, as well as a ready-made video game. This installation represents an example of a radical - subjective view of the private microcosm of life in one’s own home and existence.
