Archived: Opening: She Was Unaware of Her Borders. / Ego in Habitat.

PETRA FERIANCOVÁ: SHE WAS UNAWARE OF HER BORDERS. / EGO IN HABITAT. Barrel Gallery, HDLU House 24.9. – 11.10.2020.

Opening of the exhibition by Petra Feroancova, She Was Unaware of Her Borders. / Ego in Habitat, will be, adhering to all the measures recommended by the National Civil Protection Headquarters, in the open, in front of the main entrance to the House of HDLU, on Thursday, September 24, 2020. at 7 p.m.

“She Was Unaware of Her Borders (Ego In Habitat), the first solo exhibition of the noted Slovak artist Petra Feriancova in Zagreb, is revealed as the artist's contact with the space of the Bačva gallery. By placing the works in dialogue with the exhibition space, Petar Feriancov points to the tensions between the space, the observer and the observed. Her gesture is focused on questioning spatial relationships and interactions between objects and subjects, staging the performative character of the exhibition and moving through space. ()

(…) Petra Feriancova collects objects and paintings that she exhibits as a kind of archeology of memory. He deals, he points out, with "surviving" objects and the aspiration of objects to expose a part of their own history. Through formal and sensual installations, he deals with objects, in relation to human life, their history, existence, duration, survival, fragility, emphasizing the atmosphere and evoking similar feelings in the viewer. In this way, the artist uses specific visual language to create spaces, memories, atmospheres of catastrophe, archeological remains, abandoned humanism and an encyclopedia that is formed in the space of experimentation between scientific, historical and private view, potentiality and imagination, connecting intimate and universal. ”

From the preface, Branka Benčić

BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

Petra Feriancová is a Slovak artist, writer and curator. She was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1977. In 2013, she represented Slovakia and the Czech Republic at the 55th Venice Biennale. In 2011 she was a resident of ISCP, New York, USA, and in 2010 she was awarded the Oscar Capan Award for Young Fine Artists organized by the FCS Civil Society Foundation.

Selected solo exhibitions include:

Fabvlae, Villa D'Este, Tivoli, IT (2020); Lebenswelt, Significant Other, Vienna, AT (2019); Personnel, Gilda Lavia, Rome, IT; Keyboard, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, HU; I Am Losing My Beauty Together With My Interest in Beautiful Things, Baril, Cluj, RO; Becoming Animal, Tenderpixel, London, UK (all 2018); Systems, Individuals and Measuring Tools, Bòlit Center d'Art Contemporani, Girona, SP; Survivals, Relicts, Souvenirs, Pharmacy, Vodnjan, HR; An Exhibition on Doubt, MAN_Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, IT; (all 2016); Vulnerable, Yet Everlasting, Viltin Gallery, OFF Biennale Budapest, HU (2015); Things that Happen, and Things that are Done. On Beginnings and Matter, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT (2014); Still the Same Place, An Order of Things (with Zbynek Baladrán), Czech and Slovak Pavilions, Venice Biennale, IT (2013); A Study of the Secondary Plan, Dumb, The House Of Arts, Brno, CZ (2012); Postsriptum to Childe Harold's Pilgrimge, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK (2011) and Theory of a City or the Possibilities of an A4, ISCP, New York, US (2011).