Video Evening #21
Ana Čigon
Screening and artist talk
Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 7 pm
At the 21st Video Evening KOLEKTIVA is pleased to presents Slovene artist Ana Čigon who will present her recent video works dealing with the issues of feminism. Some of the videos will be publicly screened for the first time.
In her videos, which are occasionally made in conjunction with other artists, Ana Čigon raises questions about the historicisation and underrepresentation of female artists and other important female figures and their work in the public sphere. In some videos, she expands her exploration of the underrepresentation onto other invisible and ignored social groups. Through her work Čigon also encourages the viewer to reflect on how small group of people have gained the privilege to control artistic representation such as public monuments and other canonised artistic artifacts.
PROGRAMME:
Dear Ladies, Thank You (2011), 06:22
Dear Ladies, Thank You (2013), 12:37
The Discovery Of The Cat In A Bag (2014–2015), 08:02
Ljubljana City of Women (2013), together with Teja Reba, Leja Jurišić, Barbara Kapelj Osredkar,09:02
Heroinat (Pristina, 2015), 15:41
About the artist:
Ana Čigon completed her undergraduate studies in Painting and postgraduate studies in Video at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design. She also received an MA in Interface Cultures in Kunstuniversität Linz in Austria. She mainly works in the areas of video, performance and new media. In her latest art projects, she is dealing with feminist topics, focusing on the issue of underrepresentation of women in art history and art theory, underrepresentation of women in public monuments and the importance of the reevaluation of history of art.
www.anacigon.si
Video Evening is a periodical event in which we screen video selections prepared by various invited artists, curators, institutions, associations and festivals.
Video Evening #21
Production: Association/Gallery Photon
Co-production: Kolektiva Institute, Ana Čigon
Project coordinators: Vesna Bukovec, Metka Zupanič