Presque rien N.1 is an video installation that appropriates landscape of the street and its everyday events. The title comes as a homage to Luc Ferrari’s work with the same name (1970). During one evening a webcam recorded the pedestrians walking through the Židovska ulica, inviting them to interact with recorded content projected in front of them.
Through the use of a custom software, the imagery is slightly processed, offering a new view of the same landscape that the viewer finds him/herself in. Some sort of mirror that converges new artefacts to their surroundings. The recordings made during the first evening will then be screened in the following week.
The intention is to explore a simple quotidian moment, a day in the life of this small street and transform it into an object of aesthetic contemplation, breaking the boundaries that separate art from everyday life. Rather than exposing it in a gallery “ritualistic” space, that frames this daily events, the work explicitly takes advantage of its medium and location to shape the material, by “misusing” the webcam apparatus, shifting it into something that the industry did not intended to and transforming the images into an absence of pure abstract images.
VideoWall is an open air video gallery, an ever-changing graffiti. There is a new video loop being presented every two weeks. Each of the works is then being screened daily from 9 pm to 1 am in summer and from 6 pm to midnight in winter.
In the year 2015 there will be seven solo exhibitions from Slovenian and foreign artists, which were selected through an international call by Pila Rusjan, video artist and author of the VideoWall project, apart from those, we plan to host three group exhibitions.
VideoWall is produced by famulVideoLab (KD Galerija GT), supported by City of Ljubljana and Galerija Hest. Executive producer Polona Zupan / Pila Rusjan with assistant Miha Kelemina.